The recent directive by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum for the party’s Deputy National Secretary, Architect Setonji Koshoedo to step in as acting national secretary appears not to have resolved the dispute over the position, according to indications yesterday.
Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who was reinstated by the Supreme Court last month after two failed attempts at the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal, is not prepared to accept the governors’ decision or vacate office for Koshoedo.
He has vowed to return to his desk at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja after the Easter break.
Koshoedo, sources said, is also ready to take over the responsibility assigned to him by the governors.
The governors, rising from a meeting in Ibadan last Monday, had recommended that the deputy secretary temporarily act as national secretary “pending the nomination and ratification of a substantive secretary from the Southeast zone at its next meeting.”
The PDP governors had previously thrown their weight behind Hon. Sunday Udeh-Okoye to replace Anyanwu, but he ‘vanished’ from the PDP national secretariat as soon as the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Anyanwu.
