By Israel Ajenu
Stakeholders from the South East have passed a vote of confidence on National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Samuel Anyanwu.
Addressing them at the PDP National Secretariat, Anyanwu confidently asserted that because he was elected at a PDP national convention more than three years ago, no one can remove him from his position until another national convention takes place in December.
At the gathering, which reaffirmed South East stakeholders’ support for Anyanwu, PDP Deputy National Legal Adviser, Okechukwu Osuoha emphasised that majority of PDP leaders from the zone are backing Anyanwu but some prominent chieftains like PDP Board of Trustees’ Chairman, Sen Adolphus Wabara and the zone’s only PDP Governor, Peter Mbah were aabsent
While Anyanwu emphasized that there will be no room for the likes of PDP bigwigs like High Chief Ali Odefa and Hon Sunday Udeh-Okoye and the interests they represent within the PDP, all his supporters who spoke spiritedly dismissed the purported PDP Zonal Executive Committee (ZEC) meeting which took place at Government House, Enugu on January 24, 2025.
“By Article 27(3) of the Constitution of the Peoples Democratic Party the Zonal Executive Committee can only be summoned at the instance of the National Vice Chairman; in consideration of the fact that there is no National Vice Chairman in office the Zonal Executive Committee Meeting of the South East fixed for the 24th January, 2025 cannot be a lawful meeting of the organ of the party.
“Arising from the foretasted legal opinion, the members of the Zonal Working Committee (ZWC) from Abia, Imo and Anambra States and several statutory members of the Zonal Working Committee ignored the notice of meeting and consequently boycotted the meeting,” they stated.
They also asserted that contrary to the opinion of a section of the PDP National Working Committee, the disciplinary measures and expulsion pronounced on High Chief Ali Idefa by his Oguduokwor Ward in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi following multiple breaches of the PDP constitution remain in effect.
