Turaki-led PDP files appeal at s’court to restrain Wike’s faction from holding convention

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The Kabiru Turaki-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the supreme court to restrain the faction loyal to Nyesom Wike, minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), from conducting its national convention scheduled for March 29 and 30.

The Turaki-led PDP faction on Friday filed an appeal against the judgement of the court of appeal, which upheld the ruling nullifying its national convention held in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, in November 2025.

In the appeal, the PDP faction argued that the court of appeal and the federal high court lack jurisdiction over the matter.

BACKGROUND

In October 2025, the federal high court in Abuja stopped the PDP faction led by Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, and Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi, from going ahead with its national convention slated for November 15 and 16 in Ibadan.

James Omotosho, the presiding judge, ruled that the evidence before the court showed that the party failed to hold valid state congresses before the planned convention as stipulated in the 1999 constitution and guidelines of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as well as its own constitution.

Despite the ruling, the PDP national working committee (NWC) of the faction went ahead with the national convention in Ibadan.

The Ibadan convention produced Turaki as national chairman of the faction and other members of the NWC. Thecable