The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lodged a case at the Federal High Court in Abuja aiming to prevent the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising the national convention that took place in Ibadan, Oyo State, on 15 and 16 November.
In the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2501/2025, the party alongside Mohammed Abdulrahman, acting national chairman, and Samuel Anyanwu, national secretary asks the court to declare the convention and all decisions reached at the event “null, void, and of no effect”.
The plaintiffs belong to the faction aligned with Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
At the Ibadan convention, Anyanwu, Wike, former Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose, and eight other party leaders were expelled from the PDP.
The plaintiffs are also asking the court to issue an order preventing INEC and security agencies from recognising the 6th to 25th defendants including Umar Damagum, Kabiru Turaki, the newly elected national chairman, and other prominent members as legitimate officials of the PDP.
In their originating summons, the plaintiffs contended that the Ibadan convention was held in blatant disregard of three existing Federal High Court judgments.
Credit: dailypost.ng
