More trouble came the way of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Friday (today), as the Federal High Court, Ibadan, Oyo State, nullified its national convention held in the state, 15 November 2025.
Handing down the ruling, the presiding judge, Mr Uche Agomoh, barred the party’s national officers elected during the convention from continuing in office as the party’s leaders.
The judge ruled that the said national convention was held in contempt of the court’s orders, TheCablereports.
Agomoh said that PDP could not ignore the court’s orders and still approach it to obtain judicial approval for actions taken against the orders.
For him, the PDP could only operate through the caretaker committee until a lawful national convention was held.
A faction of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) led by Kabiru Turaki as national chairman, filed a suit seeking the recognition of the national convention and validating the NWC members elected during same.
During the convention, 20 NWC members were elected, including Turaki, Hamza Akuyan Koshe (deputy national chairman —north), Daniel Ambrose Woye (deputy national chairman —south), and Arapaja Taofeek Gbola-Oladejo (national secretary).
Days before the convention, conflicting court orders were issued pertaining to the national convention, leaving the PDP to obey or disobey whichever it deemed fit.
On 31 October 2025, the Federal High Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice James Omotoso stopped the PDP from going ahead with the convention.
He had held that evidence before the court showed that the party failed to hold valid state congresses before the planned national convention, as stipulated in the 1999 constitution, INEC guidelines, and even its own constitution: ruling 1.
On 4 November 2025, the Oyo High Court ordered the PDP and Umar Damagum, the former national chairman, to proceed with the party’s national convention fixed for 15 November in Ibadan: ruling 2
On 11 November, 2025, Peter Lifu, a judge at the Federal High Court in Abuja, restrained the PDP from holding the national convention, adding to the confusion: ruling 3, aligning with ruling 1.
The PDP faction loyal to Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike, boycotted the convention.
The PDP may be heading to the Court of Appeal to set aside the latest ruling, and until then, the trouble of the party that once ruled the country for 16 years, and even boasted that it would continue in power for 60 years, continues.
