{"id":221204,"date":"2026-01-20T23:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-pdp-crisis-court-dismisses-anyanwus-suit-against-inec-others\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:19:12","slug":"nigeria-pdp-crisis-court-dismisses-anyanwus-suit-against-inec-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-pdp-crisis-court-dismisses-anyanwus-suit-against-inec-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: PDP Crisis &#8211; Court Dismisses Anyanwu&#8217;s Suit Against INEC, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, the former factional National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeking recognition as the party&#8217;s scribe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Judge Mohammed Umar dismissed the suit following the expiration of Anyanwu&#8217;s tenure as secretary of the party in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Anyanwu, in the suit marked: FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/254\/2025, had originally sued the Independent National Electoral Commission&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601200451.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, the former factional National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeking recognition as the party&#8217;s scribe. Judge Mohammed Umar dismissed the suit following the expiration of Anyanwu&#8217;s tenure as secretary of the party in December 2025. The News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,53457,6185,3723,12843,17258,257,4687,393,905,254,7628],"class_list":["post-221204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anyanwus","tag-court","tag-crisis","tag-dismisses","tag-inec","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pdp","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}