The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced plans to challenge the judgment of a Federal High Court in Ibadan that invalidated its national convention held in Oyo State between November 15 and 16, 2025.
In a ruling delivered on Friday, Justice Uche Agomoh nullified all resolutions reached at the convention and restrained officials said to have emerged from the exercise—including those aligned with the Kabiru Turaki–led faction—from presenting themselves as national officers of the party.
The court also affirmed the Caretaker Committee headed by Mohammed Abdulrahman, working with Senator Samuel Anyanwu, as the only recognised National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, pending the conduct of a lawful national convention.
Reacting to the judgment, the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong, mnipr, said the party had instructed its legal team to immediately file an appeal.
“We are aware of the judgment of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, delivered this morning (Friday),” Ememobong said in a statement. “The court declined to grant the order of mandamus sought, on the grounds that doing so would amount to sitting on appeal over judgments of courts of coordinate jurisdiction.”
Despite the ruling, Ememobong insisted that the Kabiru Turaki–led PDP, which emerged from the Ibadan convention, remains “legally intact and unshaken,” adding that the party is confident of securing relief at the appellate courts.
He urged party members nationwide to remain calm, assuring them that there was “absolutely no cause for alarm,” while stressing that the party’s much-touted “REBIRTH movement” remains firmly on course.
The suit, marked FHC/IB/CS/121/2025, was filed by the Turaki faction, seeking judicial validation of the Ibadan convention and recognition of the NWC elected at the event.
However, Justice Agomoh held that the convention was conducted in clear violation of two subsisting judgments issued by courts of coordinate jurisdiction. The judge described the attempt to obtain post-event judicial endorsement as futile and legally unsustainable.
Consequently, the court ruled that the PDP can only be lawfully administered by the caretaker committee until a valid national convention is convened in strict compliance with the law.
PDP Heads to Appeal Court as Ibadan Convention Is Nullified
