Supreme Court Ruling Affirming Anyanwu PDP Nat’l Secretary Was Clear- Reps Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Kingsley Chinda has expressed dismay over the attempt by some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to misinform the public on the recent Supreme Court ruling that restored Senator Samuel Anyanwu as the National Secretary of the PDP.

Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, the Rivers State federal lawmaker said that the judgement of the Supreme Court was clear on its ruling which set aside the Enugu State High Court judgement and the judgement of the Court of Appeal Enugu Division which had earlier ruled in favour of Mr. S KE Ude Okoye.

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Hon. Chinda clarified that the court in throwing away the ruling of the lower courts affirmed that the plaintiff in the case was a meddlesome interloper who had no basis to go to court in the first and also affirmed that Ude Okoye could not have been validly appointed a Secretary of the party when there was no vacancy in the secretary’s seat in the party.

The Minority Leader said:

“On the issue of supreme court judgment, it is clear, I will advise that people should endeavor to read before they come to public space to attempt to deceive the public. It doesn’t pay us. It’s embarrassing as a political party that a judgment of court will be given, and then you hear people misinterpreting the judgment and giving various interpretations even within very high level of the party.

“Look, let me tell you that judgment must not be in my favour. But once there is a judgment, there is a judgment, and if it is Supreme Court, I don’t have any option than to align with it and look for a way to ensure that we make progress. The judgment is clear.

“The appeal [of Senator Samuel Anyanwu] was upheld.  The Judgment of the lower court was set aside, the judgment of the Court of Appeal was set aside, and the Court ruled that, look, the person who brought the suit actually not our brother, Ude Okoye, the person who brought the suit, that the person was a busy body, and Ude  Okoye himself an interloper  and that the Sen Sam Anyanwu was never removed from office. And so he remains the national secretary of the party.

“It’s simple that issues of leadership are internal matters of the party, and so that the Court of First Instance ought not to have even exercised jurisdiction over the matter. So all the misinterpretations, I don’t know what they intend to achieve, that is causing more problem within our party.

“We have a legal adviser. I think that if anybody is in doubt, please approach the national legal adviser of the party who is in a position to tell you clearly what the position of the Supreme Court is not for the National Publicity Secretary to cause the kind of confusion that is causing.

Hon Chinda cautioned party leaders and members to avoid the temptation of denigrating the party in the public just because the position of the court was not in their favour,

According to him, “We are not happy about that, but because we are party men, we don’t want to join issues. We don’t want to continue to wash our dirty linens outside. We will caution ourselves to please, bridle our tongue.

“mLet us be slow in going to the public to discuss party issues from the supreme court judgment, Sam Anyanwu is the national secretary of the party.”