The Edwin Woko-led executives of the Peoples Democratic Get together, PDP, in Rivers State have welcomed the judgment of the Court docket of Enchantment in Enugu, which on Friday sacked Samuel Anyanwu because the Nationwide Secretary of the PDP.
The Court docket of Enchantment sitting in Enugu upheld a Excessive Court docket judgment that eliminated Anyanwu and affirmed Ude Okoye because the substantive Nationwide Secretary of the social gathering.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Ridwan Abdullahi acknowledged that Anyanwu’s emergence because the PDP governorship candidate violated the social gathering’s structure, rendering his attraction baseless.
Reacting to the decision, Edwin Woko, in an announcement issued on Saturday, described the ruling as the top of Anyanwu’s “political playing within the PDP.”
The Woko-led executives additionally aligned with the PDP’s Board of Trustees, BoT and different social gathering leaders, urging members within the North Central zone to urgently nominate an individual of impeccable character to switch Iyorchia Ayu because the social gathering’s Nationwide Chairman.
Woko additional referred to as on PDP members nationwide to help efforts by the BoT Chairman and a few members of the PDP Nationwide Working Committee, NWC, to revive the social gathering’s power as a vibrant opposition, notably throughout a interval of widespread hardship underneath the APC-led Federal Authorities.
Woko stated, “We bear in mind vividly that one of many prime agendas of the PDP Board of Trustees’s assembly held on the fifth of December 2024 was to cost the folks of the North Central of our nice social gathering PDP to make haste and choose somebody from the zone for Iyorcha Ayu’s substitute in accordance to part 47 (6) of our social gathering’s structure.”
