{"id":22981,"date":"2025-03-22T07:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22981"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:44:56","slug":"samuel-anyanwu-not-pdp-national-secretary-supreme-court-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22981","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t be Misled, Supreme Court Did Not Recognize Samuel Anyanwu as PDP National Secretary &#8211; NWC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The Supreme Court of Nigeria has clarified the legal status of the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Secretary position<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, stating that it did not declare <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Samuel Anyanwu<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> as the party\u2019s recognized National Secretary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The ruling, delivered on <\/span><span class=\"s1\">March 21, 2025<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, reaffirmed that matters concerning party leadership and membership are internal affairs of political parties and fall outside the jurisdiction of the courts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">A <\/span><span class=\"s1\">five-member panel<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> of the apex court, led by <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Justice Jamilu Tukur<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, upheld the dissenting opinion of <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Justice Ekanem<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> from the Court of Appeal, which held that lower courts lacked jurisdiction to intervene in the dispute. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">However, the ruling did not explicitly reinstate Anyanwu but rather emphasized that such matters should be resolved through the PDP\u2019s internal mechanisms as outlined in its constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Following the judgment, the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">PDP\u2019s National Working Committee (NWC)<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> issued a statement reaffirming that <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Sunday Ude-Okoye<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> remains the party\u2019s substantive National Secretary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The party maintained that Ude-Okoye\u2019s nomination and ratification followed due process after Anyanwu became the PDP\u2019s <\/span><span class=\"s1\">governorship candidate for the 2023 Imo State election<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, aligning with the Supreme Court\u2019s position that internal party affairs should be handled within the party structure.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Nigeria has clarified the legal status of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Secretary position, stating that it did not declare Samuel Anyanwu as the party\u2019s recognized National Secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10422,110,10421,1129],"class_list":["post-22981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-national-secretary","tag-pdp","tag-samuel-anyanwu","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22984,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22981\/revisions\/22984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}