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We have court orders barring us from replacing Anyanwu -PDP

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From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Abdullahi Ibrahim, Friday, said that the party has received two orders of courts barring it from recognising any other person except Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the national secretary.

Abdullahi, who spoke at a press briefing in Abuja, said the PDP was served with a stay of execution of the judgement of the Court of Appeal, Enugu Division that ousted Anyanwu as national secretary, while a Federal High Court in Abuja has also restrained the party from recognising any other person as national secretary, apart from the latter.

The deputy publicity secretary, while responding to question on why he was addressing a press briefing on the issue, rather than the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said, he was mandated by the acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum to undertake the assignment.

According to him, Ologunagba has been allegedly issuing statements on behalf of the party without clearance from the National Working Committee (NWC).  He added that the spokesman is allegedly allowing his sentiment to affect his job.

Abdullahi stated that, for instance, the statement of the publicity secretary on Thursday, indicating that PDP has accepted the judgement of the Rivers State High Court, sacking the party’s executive in the state, was allegedly not the position of the NWC. He said this is because the party organ has not met since September 2024.

“By virtue of our duties, I enjoy the same powers to speak for this party. Otherwise, all of the interviews and the communication I have been engaged in in the time past would have amounted to a nullity if at this point I cannot speak for this party.

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“And in the manner that my colleague (Ologunagba) has demonstrated lately, it’s becoming very glaring and clear that the party is having discomfort, as it were, with some of his disposition lately.

“He cannot speak for the NWC without clearance with the NWC. That is not the position of law. That is not expected of him as a lawyer to so do,” he stated.



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