The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) escalated on Tuesday after the faction loyal to Nyesom Wike and Samuel Anyanwu filed a fresh suit at the Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies from recognising the party’s November 15–16 national convention held in Ibadan.
The group had boycotted the convention, which produced Kabiru Turaki as the new National Working Committee (NWC) chairman, insisting the exercise violated subsisting court orders. They argued that multiple rulings including those delivered on October 31, November 11, and November 14 had suspended the convention.
Despite the orders, the Turaki faction secured approval from an Ibadan High Court to proceed and later expelled Wike, Anyanwu, Ayo Fayose and others for alleged anti-party activities.
In the new suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2501/2025, the Wike group — through acting national chairman Mohammed Abdulrahman and national secretary Samuel Anyanwu — is asking the court to declare the Ibadan convention and its outcomes “null, void and of no effect.”
They also want INEC, the Inspector-General of Police, the FCT Commissioner of Police, and the DSS barred from recognising Turaki, Umar Damagum and others as PDP officials, arguing the convention violated three Federal High Court judgments, including Wike’s own suit delivered on May 31, 2023.
The plaintiffs further seek orders compelling security agencies to enforce the subsisting judgments, provide them access to Wadata Plaza and Legacy House, and restrain the party from changing its official addresses in Abuja.
Anyanwu, in an affidavit, accused the Turaki faction of attempting to forcibly take over the party’s secretariats on November 18. He also alleged that instead of enforcing court orders, police and DSS sealed the buildings and denied legitimate officers access.
The suit is yet to be assigned to a judge, and no hearing date has been fixed.