The Appeal Court sitting in Enugu few hours ago sacked Sen.Samuel Anyanwu as People’s Democratic Party National Secretary and declared Rt.Hon.Ude Okoye as the new national secretary of PDP to complete the remaining tenure created by the automatic vacancy in the office when sen. Samuel Anyanwu left as the national secretary to run for governorship.
The Appeal Court affirmed the Judgement of the High Court in Enugu which earlier on had sacked Anyawu as PDP Secretary and upheld the nomination by South East PDP Executives, which nominated Rt. Hon.Ude Okoye as replacement to Anyawu as PDP Secretary.
The Court in a lead Judgement delivered by Justice Ridwan Abdullahi described Anyawus claim to PDP secretaryship despite contesting ans emerging as PDP governorship candidate as a grave violation of the pdp constitution and declared that his Appeal against the lower court judgement lacked merit.