By Joshua Tosin Ogunsakin 
The appeal filed by Senator Samuel Anyanwu challenging his removal as the National Secretary of the People Democratic Party (PDP) will be heard on March 10, the Supreme Court said yesterday.
A five-member panel of the apex court, presided over by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, chose the date yesterday, while delivering ruling on the motion for accelerated hearing filed by Anyanwu.
Last December, the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu upheld a High Court decision that sacked Samuel Anyanwu as PDP national secretary.
The lower court upheld Sunday Udeh-Okoye as the substantive national secretary of the opposition party.
In the lead judgment delivered by Justice Ridwan Abdullahi, the Court of Appeal held that Anyanwu‘s appeal was incompetent and lacking in merit.
The appellate court held that the appellant violated the PDP constitution by laying claim to the national secretary position, having contested and picked as the party’s candidate in the 2024 governorship election in Imo State.
Dissatisfied with the ruling, Anyanwu approached the apex court last month and asked the court to set aside the judgment of the two lower courts and recognise him as the authentic national secretary of the PDP.
He also filed a motion for accelerated hearing as well as an abridgment of time on grounds of the crucial role of the office of national secretary.
Delivering ruling in the motion, the Supreme Court granted the relief sought and ordered service of the court processes on the respondent, Mr. Aniagu Emmanuel, who the court said, must file in his reply brief within three days of service.
Anyanwu, on the other hand was given two days to reply on point of law.
But the apex court did not hear Anyanwu’s motion for stay of execution of the judgment of the appellate court was not heard by the apex court.