The Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has formally affirmed Samuel Anyanwu because the get together’s Nationwide Secretary, placing an finish to months of inner wrangling and management uncertainty inside the get together.
Talking at a press convention on Wednesday, Umar Damagum, the PDP’s Appearing Nationwide Chairman, confirmed that Anyanwu will resume in his position, stating that the choice displays the NWC’s dedication to get together unity and the rule of regulation.
Samuel Anyanwu, a former senator representing Imo East, was elected Nationwide Secretary through the PDP Nationwide Conference in 2021. Nevertheless, his standing turned contentious in 2023 when he emerged because the get together’s gubernatorial candidate for the Imo State governorship election.
Following his emergence as a governorship candidate, inner factions inside the PDP argued that Anyanwu had vacated his nationwide workplace by contesting the governorship election, because the get together’s structure doesn’t allow one particular person to concurrently maintain get together workplace and contest elective workplace.
This led to authorized tussles and rival claims to the nationwide secretary place, with calls from some quarters for his substitute and makes an attempt to put in an appearing secretary in his place.
Nevertheless, with the 2023 Imo governorship election concluded—and Anyanwu shedding to APC incumbent Governor Hope Uzodinma—his loyalists pushed for his return to the nationwide workplace. After weeks of inner consultations and authorized assessment, the NWC has now affirmed his place.
The choice is seen as a transfer to stabilize the get together’s inner management construction forward of future elections, together with the 2027 common elections. It additionally indicators the NWC’s effort to reconcile warring factions and refocus the get together’s agenda as the principle opposition power in Nigeria.
