Five weeks after the court stopped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from removing Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the national secretary, the Federal High Court declared the Senator as the legitimate secretary of the party.
Justice Inyang Ekwo made this known in Abuja on Tuesday restrained the national leadership of the PDP from appointing any person as acting national secretary when Anyanwu’s four-year tenure is still running and subsisting until Dec. 9, 2025, in line with the party’s constitution.
While restraining also the Independent National Electoral Commission from recognizing any purported in-acting capacity, it warned that removing Senator Anyanwu would violate Article 47 (1) of the PDP Constitution (as amended in 2017).
The judge also restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “from recognizing any purported appointment of any person as national secretary of the party whether in acting capacity or otherwise other than Anyanwu, the elected national secretary of the PDP.”
Source: Channels
