…Gov. Mbah, Wabara, NASS members shun S’East assembly
The Nationwide Secretary of the Folks’s Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Samuel Anyanwu has alleged that Vice Chairman (South East) Chief Ali Odefa, cast the 2022 PDP electoral guideline to persuade South East stakeholders to take away him as Nationwide Secretary.
Anyanwu who spoke on Tuesday at a gathering with stakeholders from the zone, mentioned the electoral guideline Odefa offered to Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State, was neither signed nor dated.
The assembly was nevertheless, boycotted by notable stakeholders from the South East, together with Governor Mbah, Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) Senator Adolphus Wabara, in addition to members of Nationwide and Home of Meeting and members of the Nationwide Working Committee (NWC) from the zone.
Solely two state Chairmen, Imo and Abia States and a few zonal officers, attended the assembly, in addition to Chief Chris Uba.
Odefa and Ologunagba, PDP Nationwide Publicity Secretary, had disowned the assembly and mentioned South East leaders held a profitable zonal assembly in Enugu final Friday.
“Because the Nationwide Vice Chairman (South East) and member of the NWC representing the South East, I hereby authoritatively state that no such assembly is scheduled between the South East stakeholders and the NWC,” Odefa mentioned in an announcement.
However Anyanwu instructed the assembly that Odefa is now not a PDP member, having been expelled from the celebration by his ward, and mentioned the zonal assembly he presided over in Enugu was unlawful, null and void.
He accused Odefa of making an attempt to perpetrate himself in workplace, including that that was why he offered the thought to Governor Mbah that the PDP structure says that for him to run for the 2023 Imo State governorship, he ought to resign as Nationwide Secretary.
“He went and printed faux electoral tips for main election and took it to His Excellency and he purchased into it with out understanding the reality. Primarily based on that, they now got here and instructed me that I ought to resign,” Anyanwu acknowledged.
In response to him, on November 10, 2023, whereas he was busy getting ready for his governorship election, “they went and bought from a state Excessive Court docket in Enugu and primarily based on this faux doc, the choose gave an order that I’m purported to have resigned.
“They instructed me that another person has been appointed, one Ude-Okoye has been appointed as Nationwide Secretary of the celebration.
“I used to be elected by means of a nationwide conference and it is just by means of conference that I might be eliminated.
“They went forward and instructed the governor as a result of he’s the one governor from the South East that if I turn into a governor, as former Nationwide Secretary of the celebration, that I will likely be too highly effective and that it’s higher for him to proceed to turn into the one governor from the South East.”
Anyanwu mentioned he has appealed towards the Court docket of Appeal judgement that sacked him on December 20, 2024, and has obtained a keep of execution.
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