The faction had boycotted the elective convention that produced a new National Working Committee (NWC) led by Kabiru Turaki. They argued that the convention violated several subsisting court orders, including the judgment delivered by Justice James Omotoso of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which had suspended the exercise.
According to court documents, the plaintiffs relied on multiple judgments and interim orders delivered between October 31 and November 14 in suits marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2120/2025 and FHC/ABJ/CS/2299/2025, as well as an earlier judgment from May 2023 in Wike v. PDP. They contend that these rulings rendered the Ibadan convention illegal.
Despite the subsisting orders, the Turaki-led camp secured approval from an Ibadan High Court and proceeded with the convention, where it took far-reaching decisions, including the expulsion of Nyesom Wike, Samuel Anyanwu, Ayo Fayose, and several others over alleged anti-party activities.
BusinessDay gathered that the new suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2501/2025, is yet to be assigned to a judge. The plaintiffs—Mohammed Abdulrahman, acting national chairman of the faction, and Samuel Anyanwu, national secretary—are asking the court to declare the Ibadan convention “null, void and of no effect”.
They are also seeking orders restraining the police, DSS, INEC, and other security agencies from recognising the new NWC members or allowing them to act as PDP officials. Additionally, the faction is asking the court to compel security agencies to provide them unrestricted access to the party’s Abuja offices—Wadata Plaza and Legacy House.
In his supporting affidavit, Anyanwu alleged that the Turaki faction attempted to forcibly take over the party’s national secretariat on November 18. He further claimed that instead of enforcing the court orders, security agencies sealed the secretariat and denied legitimate officials access.
He noted that the defendants “have now sealed up the premises of the 1st plaintiff and denied the 2nd and 3rd plaintiffs access to their offices.”
The suit also asks the court to determine whether any authority can lawfully recognise the Ibadan convention despite subsisting judgments and whether INEC can accept a change of address for the PDP outside the two officially registered locations in Abuja.
