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The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Damagum, declared on Monday that the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC, has affirmed Samuel Anyanwu as the National Secretary.
Damagum spoke in Abuja after the NEC meeting, which was held at the party’s headquarters.
According to him, Anyanwu’s affirmation was one of the key resolutions reached during the NEC meeting, which remains the party’s highest decision-making body.
“Let it be clear that the NEC has affirmed Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the National Secretary of our great party,” Damagum stated.
The New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has said that if its 2023 presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, joins the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, it would remove a great burden for members.
The National Secretary of the party, Oginni Olaposi, said this in a statement on Sunday in Lagos.
This comes following the resignation of APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, and speculations that he quit the ruling party over an alleged move by Kwankwaso to join them.
The Eastern Updates reports that Ganduje resigned from his chairmanship position of the APC on Friday, citing health issues.
Reacting to the development, Olaposi stated that though the resignation is an APC internal affair, he decided to react because of the issues between the party and Kwankwaso.
“Kwankwaso still insists he is a member of our party even after his expulsion for alleged anti-party activities.
“Kwankwaso did not only try to hijack the NNPP but made the party go through avoidable litigations.
“The NNPP logo that he changed to the Kwankwasiya Movement logo has just been changed to our logo by INEC, after years of controversy and litigations.
“We have reasons to doubt the ongoing propaganda that Ganduje left APC to enable an alleged negotiated arrangement with Kwankwaso ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
