PDP Crisis: Turaki Camp Heads To Supreme Court Over Ruling

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, Friday, filed an appeal against the judgement of the Court Of Appeal, which upheld the ruling nullifying its national convention held in Ibadan, Oyo state, in November 2025.

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 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.

However, the faction loyal to the FCT minister did not participate in the convention but rather constituted a parallel NWC, board of trustees (BoT) and national executive committee (NEC).

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