The Peoples Democratic Get together, PDP, has lodged a case on the Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja aiming to forestall the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) from recognising the nationwide conference that happened in Ibadan, Oyo State, on 15 and 16 November.
Within the swimsuit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2501/2025, the celebration alongside Mohammed Abdulrahman, appearing nationwide chairman, and Samuel Anyanwu, nationwide secretary asks the court docket to declare the conference and all selections reached on the occasion “null, void, and of no impact”.
The plaintiffs belong to the faction aligned with Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
On the Ibadan conference, Anyanwu, Wike, former Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose, and eight different celebration leaders had been expelled from the PDP.
The plaintiffs are additionally asking the court docket to difficulty an order stopping INEC and safety businesses from recognising the sixth to twenty fifth defendants together with Umar Damagum, Kabiru Turaki, the newly elected nationwide chairman, and different outstanding members as reliable officers of the PDP.
Of their originating summons, the plaintiffs contended that the Ibadan conference was held in blatant disregard of three present Federal Excessive Court docket judgments.
They cited the judgment delivered on 31 October in FHC/ABJ/CS/2120/2025: Austine Nwachukwu v INEC & Ors; the interim order of 11 November and judgment of 14 November in FHC/ABJ/CS/2299/2025: Sule Lamido v PDP & Ors; in addition to the judgment delivered on 31 Could 2023 in FHC/ABJ/CS/139/2023: Nyesom Wike v PDP & Ors.
In keeping with the plaintiffs, the choices nullified the 21-day discover issued for the conference and expressly restrained the celebration from holding the train.
They allege that regardless of these rulings, the fifth to twenty fifth defendants “organised themselves and their cohorts” and convened a gathering in Ibadan the place they purportedly elected nationwide officers and introduced the suspension or expulsion of a number of outstanding members.
In an affidavit deposed to by Anyanwu, the nationwide secretary claimed that the group tried on 18 November to “forcibly take management” of the celebration’s nationwide secretariat at Wadata Plaza and Legacy Home in Abuja however failed.
He added that as a substitute of implementing the court docket orders, the police and Division of State Providers (DSS) “sealed up” the secretariat and denied the reliable celebration officers entry.
“The 2nd to 4th defendants have now sealed up the premises of the first plaintiff and denied the 2nd and third plaintiffs entry to their places of work,” the affidavit reads.
The plaintiffs need the court docket to declare that INEC, the Inspector-Basic of Police, the FCT Commissioner of Police, and the DSS are constitutionally obligated to implement the sooner judgments.
They’re additionally looking for an order restraining all defendants from recognising or giving impact to the Ibadan conference or any selections made there
“An order stopping the sixth to twenty fifth defendants from parading themselves as PDP officers, a directive compelling safety businesses to offer safety for the plaintiffs and grant them entry to Wadata Plaza and Legacy Home.
“An order restraining INEC from accepting any change of deal with for the PDP aside from its two official Abuja places.
“A dedication of whether or not any authority can legitimately recognise the Ibadan conference in gentle of present judgments, the structure, the Electoral Act, and the PDP structure.”
The swimsuit has not but been assigned to a choose, and no listening to date has been scheduled.
