The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party has affirmed Sunday Ude-Okoye as the party’s National Secretary.
The BoT made this resolution after a two-hour-closed door meeting in Abuja.
Another effort by the PDP Board of trustees to settle a crisis that is already tearing apart Nigeria’s biggest opposition party.
This time around they took sides in the fight between Samuel Anyanwu and Sunday Ude-Okoye over who is the legitimate National Secretary of the party.
It remains to be seen if the decision of the Party’s board of trustees will be binding on the National Working Committee.
This decision is also in consonance with the verdict of the Nigeria’s Governors forum, endorsing Sunday Ude-Okoye as the legally backed National Secretary of the Party.
But the embattled Samuel Anyawu who is also laying claim to the position of National secretary is not leaving without a fight.
In a last ditch move, he has obtained several court injunctions preventing his removal, and also wrote to the inspector general of police warning that any attempt to remove him from office will be an invitation to chaos.
He insists an appeal has been filed in the supreme court against the quoted judgment affirming Ude-Okoye as the PDP National Secretary.
For now the matter has not been settled, and the national working committee is yet to confirm who indeed is its authentic national secretary.
The BoT is a high-Level advisory body and unable to force its decisions on the NWC meeting of the party will henceforth be held outside the party’s secretariat.
