The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Senator Samuel Anyanwu’s return to workplace as unlucky and embarrassing, stressing that it has not been served any keep of execution by the Supreme Courtroom halting an Appeal Courtroom judgement which sacked him from workplace since late final yr.
The PDP nationwide publicity secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba, mentioned this whereas reacting to Anyanwu’s resumption of workplace as nationwide secretary
Senator Samuel Anyanwu on Monday resumed workplace as PDP nationwide secretary.
His resumption heightens nervousness within the authorized tussle over who the occasion’s nationwide secretary is, a place being claimed by former nationwide youth chief Sunday Ude-Okoye.
The PDP resumed official actions on Monday after its closure for the vacations within the final week of final yr.
Nevertheless, Ude-Okoye, had two weeks in the past declared his assumption of workplace primarily based on the Appeal Courtroom judgement which sacked Anyanwu. He had visited the occasion secretariat and met with some governors and occasion leaders as properly.
His declaration was echoed by the nationwide publicity secretary of PDP, Hon Debo Ologunagba, final week, who recognised Ude-Okoye as occasion secretary primarily based on court docket judgement.
However Anyanwu yesterday insisted that he had filed a keep of execution on the Supreme Courtroom over his elimination by the attraction court docket.
He insisted that he stay the occasion’s nationwide scribe, in a letter he wrote to the organs of the occasion barely hours earlier than the occasion’s resumption on Monday.
Addressing newsmen shortly after he obtained into workplace on Monday morning, Anyanwu wearing a white conventional apparel and purple cap, mentioned he has resumed workplace, including that Ologunagba place on the matter was fallacious.
He mentioned “That’s his (Ologunagba) opinion and never the opinion of the occasion. He merely made a press release and as nationwide publicity secretary of our occasion I wouldn’t need to disparage him within the media, perhaps he didn’t get the information right. He by no means knew that the matter had been appealed on the Supreme Courtroom and he’s a lawyer so he ought to perceive the place of the legislation.”
Reacting nonetheless, PDP nationwide publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba, mentioned “We’ve got not obtained any keep of execution. Anyanwu’s resumption is unlucky; this isn’t the time for the occasion to undergo this sort of embarrassing state of affairs. We’re a rustic of rule of legislation and order.
“When you’ve got a keep of execution, it’s a course of. It’s important to serve the events concerned. As I mentioned, the occasion, PDP, has not obtained both a discover of movement for a keep or been served a keep of execution. I don’t know the place that’s coming from, however the occasion has a course of. When the doc is available in, I might be made conscious by the authorized adviser. As we converse, I’ve no data presently that the occasion has been served both a movement for keep or a keep of execution.
“I’m not going to foretell what the occasion will or is not going to do. I do know very properly that when you will have a keep of execution, there’s a course of. While you apply for a keep, there’s a movement you have to have filed and served earlier than the court docket can take heed to that movement and take motion.
“As I converse to you, this occasion has not obtained a movement on discover for a keep software, nor, to my information, has the occasion obtained a keep order granted by a court docket of competent jurisdiction.”
Ologunagba mentioned it’s unlucky that such a drama is occurring, including nonetheless that Anyanwu’s try and resort to self assistance is extra condemnable.
“We’ve got details about the actions of thugs from Niger State. We’re aware of the communication concerned, together with the emails that had been despatched by {bank} switch. We’ve got particulars of that. All of those had been finished on the behest of Senator Anyanwu. It’s unlucky {that a} former senator needs to be a lawbreaker. There’s a course of; let’s agree on the rule of legislation. We’ve got no private points with him. I don’t suppose the occasion has private points. He went to court docket and appealed the case however didn’t let the method proceed.
“As I’ve mentioned earlier than, we don’t do self-help. It’s a course of. We’re a law-and-order occasion. As a result of we’re a law-and-order occasion, that’s the reason we don’t act impulsively. We see the hand of the third pressure on this matter. We suspect that, sadly, some members of the occasion are being utilized by the ruling occasion to disturb us in order that the occasion may have points going into the subsequent election due to the elemental failure of the APC.
“Having mentioned that, we’re a celebration of legislation and order. We’ll observe by with the method. We don’t do self-help. We’re not within the jungle.
“PDP will proceed to do what’s within the curiosity of the occasion, in accordance with the legislation and the structure. Don’t neglect, the judgment granted is a declaratory judgment. That can’t be stayed. It’s clear.
“If they’ve utilized for a keep, let the court docket resolve by some means. And regardless of the court docket decides, this occasion will abide by that,” he mentioned.
