By Ken Chiwendu
The Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu on Friday afternoon sacked Sen.Samuel Anyanwu as the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP. The court declared Rt.Hon.Ude Okoye as the new national secretary of the PDP to complete Anyanwu’s tenure voided by his decision to contest in the Imo state governorship election
The High Court in Enugu had earlier sacked Anyanwu as PDP Secretary and upheld the decision by the South East PDP Executives, which nominated Rt. Hon.Ude Okoye as replacement to Anyawu as PDP Secretary.
In a lead Judgement delivered by Justice Ridwan Abdullahi, the court described Anyawus claim to PDP secretaryship despite contesting and emerging as PDP governorship candidate as a grave violation of the pdp constitution and declared that his Appeal against the lower court judgement lacked merit .
Meanwhile, opposition lawmakers have hailed the judgement describing it as dawn of a new era in pdp and end to the shameless politics of sabotage , betrayal, political materialism and sellout which Anyawu represented.
In a statement their Spokesman, Ikenga Ugochinyere,said that the development marks the beginning to the end of Damagun/ Anyanwu’s evil politics against the PDP
He said, “We want to salute the courage of the Appeal Court to have ended this madness by first of all upholding the judgment of Enugu State High Court that recognizes the decision of South East PDP leaders that nominated Ude Okoye as substantive national secretary to complete the remaining tenure created by the vacancy in the office by the resignation of Samuel Anyanwu as the National secretary when he went to run for governorship.
“The Appeal Court has restated the principle of PDP constitution that anyone elected to the executive committee of the party at any level may resign his or her office by giving 30 days’ notice in writing to the executive committee, except in cases of vying for an elective office which shall be effective within the period stipulated by NEC. The law has said that you should resign. When you choose to run for the election, you have chosen to resign.
We thank the Appeal Court; the opposition lawmakers are one hundred percent with our new National secretary Ude Okoye
We support and accept the decision, the opposition lawmakers coalition is happy.” Ugochinyere said.
