Oyo State Excessive Courtroom sitting in Ibadan has adjourned ruling on a preliminary objection difficult its jurisdiction in a go well with filed by a member of the Peoples Democratic Celebration, PDP, over the celebration’s nationwide conference.
DAILY POST studies that the conference had been scheduled for Saturday, 15 November, and Sunday, November 16, 2025 in Ibadan.
The go well with was filed by a member of the PDP, Mr Folahan Adelabi.
On the listening to on Friday, counsel for the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, O. Adeyemi, argued that INEC, being a Federal Authorities company, was solely topic to the jurisdiction of the Federal Excessive Courtroom.
He requested the courtroom to strike out the case for lack of jurisdiction.
Nonetheless, counsel to the claimant, Musibau Adetumbi, opposed the objection, stating that the argument infringed on the claimant’s basic rights.
He mentioned the 1999 Structure assured the best to lawful meeting and conference.
Quoting Part 251 of the Structure, Adetumbi contended that INEC didn’t fall inside the class of companies that place the case solely earlier than the Federal Excessive Courtroom.
He urged the courtroom to dismiss the objection and proceed with the substantive go well with.
After listening to either side, the presiding choose, Justice Ladiran Akintola, adjourned the ruling to December 8, 2025.
He additionally reaffirmed that the interim order earlier granted, which restrained the defendants from disrupting or interfering with preparations for the PDP nationwide conference, remained in pressure.
The defendants within the go well with are the PDP (first defendant), its performing Nationwide Chairman, Umar Damagun (second defendant), and the Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, who chairs the PDP Conference Organising Committee (third defendant).
Recall that the identical courtroom had prolonged its interim order restraining any interference with the deliberate conference till additional listening to, guaranteeing that the occasion proceeds as scheduled.
The adjournment got here as Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja issued a ultimate order stopping the PDP from continuing with the conference.
Delivering judgment in a go well with filed by former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, Justice Lifu barred the PDP from continuing with the conference till it complies with its structure and pointers on the conference.
He additionally ordered that the conference should be placed on maintain till Lamido is allowed to buy a nomination type for the workplace of the nationwide chairman.
The controversy over the deliberate conference to elect nationwide officers of the PDP has additional deepened the disaster within the celebration.
