The unprecedented bid by Mr. Samuel Anyanwu to remain as Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national secretary after losing the Imo State governorship election suffered a major blow on Monday as the Nigerian Supreme Court threw away his suit, seeking to stay the execution of the judgment of the Court of Appeal that sacked him as the opposition party’s scribe.
The apex court threw out the request after Anyanwu applied for withdrawal of the case.
Justice Musa Awani Aba-Aji dismissed the case when Kingsley Njemanze, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, withdrew the application on behalf of his client.
The Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal in Enugu had in concurrent judgments removed Anyanwu as PDP National Secretary.
Meanwhile, hearing in the substantive matter is going on before the five-man panel of justices headed by Justice Aba-Aji.
The Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu had last December upheld a Federal High Court decision that sacked Anyanwu as the National Secretary of the PDP.
The appellate court subsequently upheld Chief Sunday Ude-Okoye as the substantive National Secretary of the main opposition party, holding that Anyanwu‘s appeal was incompetent and lacking in merit.
According to the appellate court, the appellant violated the PDP constitution by laying claim to the national secretary position having contested and emerged as the party’s candidate in the 2024 governorship election in Imo State.
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