A former National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Sunday Ude-Okoye was on Wednesday chased out of the Wadata House National Secretariat of the party in Abuja.
Ude-Okoye has been laying claim to the seat of the National Secretary of the party, despite a stay-of -execution order issued by the Court of Appeal Abuja on the disputed seat of the National Secretary of the party.
Ude-Okoye had made attempts to attend a meeting between the members of the National Working Committee (NWC) and the Board of Trustees (BoT) at the NEC Hall of the secretariat.
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The embattled former Youth Leader had earlier arrived at the venue of the meeting and had taken a seat at the corner of the room when he was spotted and subsequently chased out as his name was said not to be on the meeting manifest.
An obviously disheveled Ude-Okoye is seen in a video trending on social media platforms as he was pushed out of the venue of the meeting. Mr. Ude-Okoye is seen shouting, “they didn’t allow my boys to come in.”
Despite his protestations, he was pushed out of the premises of the party office.
The National Secretary of the party, Senator Samuel Anyanwu had on Tuesday at a Southeast stakeholders meeting of the party held at the National Secretariat explained that Mr. Ude-Okoye and the former National Vice Chairman of the party in the Southeast, Ali Odefa had forged document which they used to convince the governor of Enugu State that he had resigned as Secretary of the party.
Anyanwu reiterated that as law abiding citizen he had to follow due process and was able to secure a stay-of- execution order from the Court of Appeal. Me maintained he remained elected National Secretary of the party.
He explained:
“In October, the former National Vice Chairman South East, Chief Ali Odefa, went and connived with some people to remove me as the National Secretary.
“He went and convinced the Governor of Enugu State, that our constitution says that I will resign for me to run because he knew that his tenure as National Vice Chairman was coming to an end, so he wanted to perpetuate himself in office. So, he sold this idea to the Governor of Enugu state, Peter Mbah, who I met and told him that it was wrong.
“He went and printed fake electoral guidelines for the primary election and took it to the governor and he bought into it without knowing the truth. Based on that, they came and told me that I should resign.
“On the 10th of November, while I was busy preparing for my election, they went and got a document from a state High Court in Enugu and based on this fake document, the judge gave an order that I am supposed to have resigned. They told me that someone else has been appointed, one Ude-Okoye has been appointed as National Secretary of the party
“I was elected through a national convention and it is only through convention that I can be removed.
“They went ahead and told the governor because he is the only (PDP) governor from the South East, that if I became a governor, as former National Secretary of the party, that I would be too powerful and that it was better for him to continue to become the only (PDP) governor from the South East.
“On the 9th of January 2025, Federal High Court Abuja gave a judgment and it was quite explicit that that I remained the national secretary of this party until 9th of December, 2025 when my tenure will elapse.”
