{"id":117428,"date":"2025-04-15T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=117428"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:26:11","slug":"national-secretary-anyanwu-rejects-pdp-governors-postion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-secretary-anyanwu-rejects-pdp-governors-postion\/","title":{"rendered":"National Secretary: Anyanwu Rejects PDP Governor\u2019s Postion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There seems to be no immediate end to the controversy surrounding the office of the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) as the embattled National Secretary on Wednesday, rejected the position of the governors.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recall that PDP governors had in a communique issued at the end of their meeting in Ibadan, Oyo State capital on Tuesday, appointed the party\u2019s Deputy National Secretary, Arch. Setonji Koshoedo to take over the secretariat of the party.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sen. Anyanwu who was elected at a convention and Sunday Ude-Okoye appointed by South East stakeholders had been laying claim to the seat after the Anyawu won the Imo State governorship primary of the party.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The governors claimed that their decision was informed by a Supreme Court ruling that directed political parties to use their internal conflict resolution mechanism to solve its challenges.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anywanwu in a statement, described the decision of the governors as unconstitutional, a\u00a0 \u2018coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat against members of the party.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement reads: \u201cIt is imperative to reiterate that most distinguished Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu, at no point resign his position as the National Secretary and so remains the national secretary of PDP inconsonance with the supreme court judgement and the PDP Constitution.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe PDP constitution clearly stipulates how a national officer of the party can be elected, appointed, replaced or removed in line with sections 45, 47, 49, 57 and 59.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu has neither resigned nor the office of the national secretary vacant to warrant an acting national secretary or a call for a replacement. It is the National Convention that is saddled with the sole authority to appoint or remove national officers\u2019<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTherefore , the PDP Governors Forum\u2019s recommendation, directly and indirectly contradicts and violate all relevant sections of the PDP constitution.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Right now, the PDP governors forum is acting like they are the National Working Committee (NWC) and have usurped the powers of the NWC, National Executive Committee (NEC) and convention.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The governors forum lacks the constitution powers to impose on the party its decisions most especially an unpopular one at that. The governors forum should resolve a personal rift with the FCT Minister and not drag the position of the national secretary in to it\u201d.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged the governors not to allow their ego and proxy war to exacerbate the already existing tension in the party, which he ascribed to &#8220;A product of their misguided actions&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou cannot have a substitutive national secretary in the person of senator Samuel Anyanwu and appoint the deputy national secretary as an acting national secretary, it\u2019s nonsensical.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Although based on our party\u2019s constitution, all they have said are nothing more than a suggestion. Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu remains the authentic national secretary till December 2025, \u201d the statement further read.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While condemning the resolution of the PDP governors, he added that governor Bala Muhammad led-PDP Governors Forum should be held responsible if the party fails to meet the expectations of Nigerians<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged the PDP governors to immediately reverse their &#8220;Draconian resolution&#8221; insisting that it runs contrary to the supreme court judgement, the PDP constitution.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myke Agunwa There seems to be no immediate end to the controversy surrounding the office of the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) as the embattled National&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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