{"id":69363,"date":"2025-06-30T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69363"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:32:11","slug":"pdp-confirms-anyanwu-as-national-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/30\/pdp-confirms-anyanwu-as-national-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP Confirms Anyanwu as National Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has affirmed that Senator Samuel Anyanwu remains the party\u2019s National Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Damagum made the clarification on Monday in Abuja after the PDP\u2019s 100th National Executive Committee (NEC), meeting held at the party\u2019s national secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>He said the meeting focused solely on the outcome of the party\u2019s engagement with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), over the secretarial position, adding, \u201cWe all agreed that Senator Anyanwu will continue to act as National Secretary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further disclosed that he and Anyanwu will jointly notify INEC ahead of the next NEC meeting scheduled for July 23, during which the party&#8217;s convention will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Damagum described the meeting as peaceful despite earlier speculations of possible conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beauty of the PDP is that it\u2019s the only party in the country that knows how to resolve its issues without rancour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that all PDP governors and National Working Committee members were united, with no conflicting statements or signs of internal crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umar Damagum, has affirmed that Senator Samuel Anyanwu remains the party\u2019s National Secretary. Damagum made the clarification on Monday in Abuja after the PDP\u2019s 100th National Executive Committee (NEC), meeting held at the party\u2019s national secretariat. He said the meeting focused solely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":69364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-69363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69365,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69363\/revisions\/69365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}