Factional PDP Chairman Turaki docked

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) sitting at Maitama, on Wednesday, granted N100 million bail to a factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Kabiru Turaki, SAN. Turaki—who served as Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs from 2013 to 2015—was accused of providing false information to the police in a petition he lodged in 2022. He was arraigned before trial Justice Peter Kekemeke on a one-count charge marked CR/647/2026, which the Inspector General of Police (IGP) entered against him.

The charge, filed on November 15, 2025, reads: “That you, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, m, No. 37 T.Y. Danjuma Street, Asokoro, Abuja, on or about October 5, 2022, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, gave false information to the Inspector-General of Police via a petition dated October 5, 2022.”

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The police maintained that he committed an offence punishable under Section 140 of the Penal Code Law.

Justice Kekemeke had on March 26 issued a for the defendant’s arrest, following his repeated failure to appear before the court for arraignment.

The arrest order was subsequently vacated on April 1 after the embattled factional PDP chairman made himself available to the court and pledged his readiness for trial.

Meanwhile, Turaki pleaded not guilty to the charge read to him in open court on Wednesday.

The defence counsel, Mr. Abulaziz Ibrahim, SAN, prayed the court to admit the defendant to bail pending trial. Vanguard