Udeh-Okoye, Anyanwu Trade Words Over Postponement Of PDP NEC Meeting

ABUJA – Claimants to the Peoples Democrat­ic Party’s (PDP) national secretary position, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu and Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye, on Sun­day traded words over the postpone­ment of the party’s National Execu­tive Committee (NEC) meeting.

While Udeh-Okoye, in a special announcement he signed on Sun­day, postponed the NEC meeting, which was earlier scheduled for March 13, 2025, to May 15, 2025, Anyanwu, in his reaction, advised the party leaders, NEC members, Board of Trustees (BoT) and the party’s Governors’ Forum and the general public to disregard the pur­ported letter as it emanates from a non-official and an unauthoritative source.

The postponement, according to the special announcement signed by Udeh-Okoye, was done after due consultation with leaders, stake­holders and relevant organs of the party including the BoT, the PDP Governors’ Forum and the PDP National Assembly caucus.

The announcement reads: “Dis­tinguished members of the Nation­al Executive Committee (NEC) may recall that after due deliberation by party leaders, stakeholders and rel­evant organs of the party, the NEC meeting was scheduled to hold on Thursday, March 13, 2025.

“However, following emerging issues including the need to con­clude our pending Zonal, State, L.G.A and Ward Congresses as well as to allow for further consultation to ensure a hitch-free conduct of the meeting especially with regard to other proposed activities of our party, the NWC after due consul­tation with leaders, stakeholders and relevant organs of the party including the Board of Trustees (BoT), the PDP Governors’ Forum and the PDP National Assembly caucus hereby wishes to notify distinguished members of NEC that the 99th NEC meeting earlier scheduled for Thursday, March 13, 2025, has been unavoidably shifted to Thursday, May 15, 2025.

“All NEC members should please note the change of date and be guided accordingly.

“The NWC sincerely regrets any inconveniences this change of date will cause distinguished mem­bers of NEC.”

Reacting, Anyanwu, in a state­ment said that Udeh-Okoye is not the national secretary of PDP and was never in any NWC meeting where he was mandated to issue such notice.

He warned that Udeh-Okoye should be aware that he is under a restraining order of the court of competent jurisdiction to stop parading himself as the national secretary of PDP pending the deter­mination of the appeal lying before the apex court of the nation.