{"id":117866,"date":"2025-04-24T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=117866"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:52:07","slug":"pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1830272618211047119\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1830272618211047119-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The controversy surrounding the office of the National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been laid to rest following the elevation of the party&#8217;s Deputy National Secretary Arc. Sentonji\u00a0 Koshoedo by the National Working Committee (NWC).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The office of the party&#8217;s scribe has been under serious contention after the then substantive secretary Sen. Samuel Anyanwu secured the governorship ticket of the party during the Imo State governorship election.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The South East thereafter appointed Hon. Sunday Ude-Okoye as Acting National Secretary after a caucus meeting held in Enugu on the ground that Anyanwu cannot be a member of the NWC and at the same time holding the governorship ticket of the party. They claimed that it is against PDP guidelines and should not be allowed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyanwu however challenged the decision of the zone in the court and lost all his cases from Enugu High Court to the Supreme Court which ordered that the court has no jurisdiction in determining the leadership of a political party.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Apex Court ordered the party to obey it&#8217;s constitution and use it&#8217;s internal crisis resolution mechanism to tackle the matter.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guided by the ruling, governors elected on the platform of the party after it&#8217;s meeting in Ibadan, resolved that the PDP Acting National Secretary should be elevated as Acting National Secretary.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the decision, the NWC after it&#8217;s meeting on Wednesday firmed the decision of the governors.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an Internal Memo, titled &#8216;Appoitment of Acting National Secretary&#8217; number PDP\/NS\/EST\/146, dated April 23, 2025, addressed to all staff and signed by Gurama Bawa (Tafidan Zing) HOD of Administration which was obtained by Pointblank News, the party directed all it&#8217;s staff to recognize Koshoedo as it&#8217;s Acting National Secretary going forward.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The memo reads, &#8220;I am directed by the Ag. National Chairman to inform all Staff that Hon. (Arch) Setonji Koshoedo, Deputy National Secretary (DNS) is now the Acting National Secretary of our great Party till further notice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In line of the above, all Party correspondences should be channel to Hon. (Arch) Setonji Koshoedo.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You are kindly requested to accord him all the necessary support and cooperation as the Acting National Secretary of our great Party.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is for your information and guidance please&#8221;.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/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 The controversy surrounding the office of the National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been laid to rest following the elevation of the party&#8217;s Deputy 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":102966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117866","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0 - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0 - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Myke Agunwa The controversy surrounding the office of the National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been laid to rest following the elevation of the party&#8217;s Deputy National&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-24T17:52:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-24T17:52:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/\"},\"wordCount\":387,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/\",\"name\":\"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0 - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-24T17:52:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":720},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0 - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0 - Pointblank News","og_description":"By Myke Agunwa The controversy surrounding the office of the National Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been laid to rest following the elevation of the party&#8217;s Deputy National&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2025-04-24T17:52:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0","datePublished":"2025-04-24T17:52:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/"},"wordCount":387,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/","name":"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0 - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp","datePublished":"2025-04-24T17:52:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/PDP-anambra-election-1200x720-1.webp","width":1200,"height":720},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/pdp-nwc-affirms-koshoedo-as-acting-national-secretary\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"PDP NWC affirms\u00a0 Koshoedo as Acting National Secretary\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117867,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117866\/revisions\/117867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}