ABUJA-Embattled National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Samuel Anyanwu, has said it was an aberration to attempt to remove him without the convocation of a national convention where the decision would be taken.
He, therefore, said the fact-finding report of the governors and National Caucus of the party had settled the issue of who was the national secretary of the party.
Anyanwu’ who spoke to the PDP Press corps and stated that the office of the national secretary was specifically zoned to Imo State, said to hurriedly remove him from office without due process would have dire consequences for the party in the forthcoming national convention and some off-season elections between now and December 2025 as all correspondences between the party and INEC must be signed by him.
According to Anyanwu all the states in the south east have National Working Committee offices zoned to it.
‘’For instance, the National Deputy Treasurer comes from Enugu State. The National Auditor from Anambra State. The Deputy National Legal Adviser, Abia State. The vice national chairman is from Ebonyi.
‘’So you can see that it is wickedness for anybody that wants to take something from Ebonyi State and put it in Anambra State, when positions are evenly distributed.
“But assuming that I am no longer the National Secretary, for instance, whoever that replaces me must come from Imo State. Besides, National Secretary of a party is for the entire south. I was not elected by only southeast.
“I was elected at the convention by the entire nation. I represent the nation but it’s very disheartening that the governor of Enugu State insisted that this must go to Enugu State, when Enugu already has somebody.
‘’And by the way, is there any vacancy? There’s no vacancy. In 2023, I wrote to the party that I’m going to run election and I took leave. I wrote to INEC that while I’m on that leave, my deputy will act and so he did.
“So, I think that, for me, there’s only one people, a group of people, that can make or mar a situation or in the organisation, and that’s the press,” he said.