Court orders Anyanwu to cease acting as PDP National Secretary

Senator Samuel Anyanwu was ordered by a high court in the Abuja Federal Capital Territory to stop posing as the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) national secretary.

The order followed a lawsuit that sought an order of interlocutory injunction prohibiting the PDP from designating Anyanwu as the party’s national secretary until the outcome of the main lawsuit was known.

Douglas Nwachukwu is the complainant in the lawsuit designated FCT/HC/M/015/23, and the defendants are the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and Anyanwu, the PDP.

Anyanwu was prevented from impersonating the PDP National Secretary by Justice M.M. Adamu following his hearing of a move on notice from the applicant’s attorney, F. S. Jimba.

In addition, Adamu prohibited the PDP and INEC from appointing Anyanwu as National Secretary until the outcome of the substantive lawsuit was known.

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The hearing of the substantive lawsuit was postponed until January 24, 2024.

According to OBASANJONEWS24 Anyanwu, the PDP’s candidate for governor of Imo State, was defeated by Hope Uzodinma, the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, or APC.

He did, however, return to work on Tuesday at the party’s National Secretariat as the National Secretary.

Prior to this Saturday’s poll, the National Secretary of the party was called upon to quit, according to the DAILY POST.

Anyanwu praised party members for their support during the election in a Tuesday speech to the PDP National Secretariat personnel.