The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced plans to appeal the judgment of a Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, which nullified the party’s national convention held in the city between November 15 and 16, 2025.
In a ruling delivered on Friday, Justice Uche Agomoh set aside all decisions taken at the convention and barred officials purportedly elected therefrom, including members of the Kabiru Turaki–led faction, from parading themselves as national officers of the party.
The court further recognised the Caretaker Committee led by Mohammed Abdulrahman, alongside Senator Samuel Anyanwu, as the only legitimate National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, pending the conduct of a valid national convention.
Reacting to the judgment, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong, mnipr, said the PDP had already briefed its lawyers to file an appeal and pursue all lawful steps to protect its position.
“We are aware of the judgment of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, delivered this morning,(Friday) which essentially declined to grant the order of mandamus sought on the ground that doing so would, in the court’s view, amount to sitting on appeal over judgments of courts of coordinate jurisdiction,”
Ememobong said in a statement.
He maintained that the Kabiru Turaki–led PDP, which he argued emerged from the Ibadan convention, remained “legally intact and unshaken” as the party awaits what he described as the authoritative pronouncement of the appellate courts.
Ememobong urged party members to remain calm and resolute, insisting that there was “absolutely no cause for alarm,” while adding that the party’s “REBIRTH movement remains firmly on course.”
The suit, marked FHC/IB/CS/121/2025, was instituted by the Turaki faction, seeking judicial recognition of the Ibadan convention and validation of the NWC elected thereat.
However, the court held that the convention was conducted in flagrant disobedience to two subsisting judgments of courts of coordinate jurisdiction, describing the attempt to secure post-facto judicial approval as an exercise in futility.
Consequently, Justice Agomoh declared that the PDP could only operate through the caretaker committee until a proper and lawful national convention is conducted in accordance with the law.
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