The Supreme Court annulled on Friday the concurrent trials of the Court of Appeals and the Federal Superior Court of Abuja, which had fired Senator Samuel Anyanwu as National Secretary of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP).
A panel of five members of the Apex court argued that the question of who serves as the National Secretary of the PDP refers to the internal affairs of a political party, which is not justicable.
Judge Jamilu Tukur, who issued the main judgment of the Supreme Court, consequently struck out the judgment of the Court of First Instance pronounced in October 2024 and set aside the majority sentence of the Court of Appeals, which, in December last year, said the elimination of Anyanwu as National Secretary of PDP.
Subsequently, Judge Tukur affirmed the minority judgment of the Court of Appeals, delivered by Judge Ekanem, who had annulled the judgment of the Court of First Instance for the lack of jurisdiction.
In addition, the Apex court said that the plaintiff, Aniagu Emmanuel, who filed the claim in the Court of First Instance, lacked the legal position necessary to do so, since he did not demonstrate how he was affected by the appointment of the National Secretary of the PDP.
… more to come.