The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has finally restored Samuel Anyanwu as its National Secretary, with the apparent backing of its governors and major stakeholders.
PDP Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Iliya Damagum, announced this at a press briefing at the PDP headquarters in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The development came after Damagum led PDP leaders to a meeting with Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, on Tuesday.
Both INEC officials and PDP officers had refused to divulge the details and resolutions from that meeting.
However, sources said INEC advised PDP to comply with the Supreme Court ruling that affirmed Anyanwu party’s scribe.
Flanked by Chairman of the PDP’s Governor’s Forum and Bauchi State’s Governor Bala Mohammed, former Senate President Bukola Saraki, and other stakeholders, Damagum described the decision to accept Anyanwu into the National Working Committee “was difficult”.
He also announced that the planned NEC meeting had been cancelled.
Damagum said, “We will have an expanded Caucus, at the next Caucus we will take a decision leading to a proper NEC.
“Anyanwu is resuming as the National Secretary, that is why I said it was a critical decision. Like INEC said they don’t have our notice, so what we will have on June 30th is an extended Caucus.”
INEC also told the PDP leaders comprising of governors, members of the National Working Committee (NWC) Board of Trustees (BoT), members and some lawmakers elected on the platform of the party, that it will only accept correspondences signed by the national chairman and national secretary of the party.
It was further gathered that the meeting was called at the instance of the PDP, following the refusal of INEC to accept its notification of a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting slated for the end of this month.
INEC had rejected the letter on the grounds that it was not signed by the chairman and secretary of the party.
Only the Acting Chairman Damagum, signed the letter.
