Former National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sunday Ude-Okoye, declared yesterday he would soon resume as national secretary of the party in line with a recent judgment of the appeal court.
The court of appeal sitting in Enugu had removed Senator Samuel Anyanwu for not resigning when he contested as the PDP candidate in the Imo State governorship election in September 2023.
But Anyanwu swiftly filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, asking the apex court to stay the execution of the Court of Appeal judgment
Ude-Okoye said: “Court of appeal that upheld high court order in my favour is the second highest court in Nigeria. It mandated me to assume office within 24 hours and I intend to keep faith with the court order.
‘’There were two high court orders on the same matter; so I appealed the judgment of the high court because the two high court orders are of equal jurisdiction and powers.”
“It is only a stay of execution that will stop me from assuming office; but as we speak there is no stay. So, I will assume office as National Secretary because nature abhors vacuum’, Ude-Okoye stated
He explained that he was surprised that Anyanwu did not resign in 2023 as he promised before the September Imo State Governorship Election.
Ude-Okoye said though Anyanwu had filed a notice of appeal, no stay had been granted, stressing that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had been notified of the Court of Appeal order and the subsequent enrollment order.
He said the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees Chairman, Adolphus Wabara, and other elders of the party, including Senator Ben Obi had charged the party to obey the Court of Appeal order.
