Indication has emerged that there is pressure on the acting national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ambassador Illiya Damagum to immediately recognise and swear in Sunday Ude-Okoye, as the national secretary.

This followed a memo by PDP national legal adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade SAN, declaring that Ude-Okoye is the national secretary.

The national legal adviser said this in a memo responding to Damagum’s request for legal advice on whether to follow the directive from the BoT and PDP Governors, who also recognised Ude-Okoye as national secretary.

Erstwhile national secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu and Ude-Okoye, have been locked in a tussle over national secretary position of the PDP.

South East leaders of the PDP had nominated Ude-Okoye to replace Anyanwu, who had lost the legal battle to retain the position at High and Appeal courts, and has proceeded to the Supreme Court.
However, following a physical exchange at a BoT meeting in Wadata the party’s national secretariat, the advisory body, in a subsequent meeting, recognised Ude-Okoye as national secretary which concurred with the position of PDP governors who had met earlier in Delta State.

Anyanwu has repeatedly opposed the position of the BoT and the governors, insisting that he will not abide by their pronouncements because he is still fighting his removal in court.

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