The Democratic Party of the Peoples (PDP), chapter of the IMO state, described the trial of the Supreme Court on the recent National Secretariat Contest in the party as credible and healthy.
In a statement issued on Friday by the Secretary of Advertising of the State of the PDP IMO, Lancelot Obiaku said that the sentence stops an unprecedented violation of the constitution of the party that threatened the wishes of its founding members.
He recalled that the Apex Court in a unanimous sentence of a five -member panel on Friday, March 21, 2025 declared Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the authentic national secretary of the party, leaving aside the majority verdict of the Court of Appeals in Enugu that he had on December 20, 2024, confident a superior court asked by the National Secretary of the PADPU.
The Supreme Court argued that the question of who is the National Secretary of the PDP limits with the internal affairs of a political party that is not justiciable.
He said that Judge Jamilu Tukur while pronouncing the main trial, said that the plaintiff, Aniagu Emmanuel, who initiated the claim in the court of first instance, lacked the necessary legal support to do so, since since he did not prove how he was affected by whom he is the national secretary of the PDP.
According to the party, the judge said that Senator Anyanwu did not give up his position and cannot be eliminated from the position for having been elected in a national convention that is in line with the constitution of the party (2017) according to amended.
He declared that Senator Anyanwu has shown that he will not breach any section of the Constitution of the Party, especially section 48 (1) that prohibits the possession of the dual offices because it was not sworn as governor (an non -partisan elective position) after the election of the governance he played in November 2023.
He argued that there is no sectional section of the Constitution of the party that requires a party officer who resigns before competing for an elective office that is not a part.
The party is the courage of Senator Samuel Anyanwu by standing firm on the side of justice and the government of laws amid the unhealthy conspiracies and unconstitutional plots against him.
Therefore, the party asked the leaders and interested parties of the party both in the state and nationally to close the ranks and adopt peace for the stability and growth of the party.