(DDM) – A major legal confrontation has erupted within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the faction loyal to Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and key security agencies to court over the recent national convention held in Ibadan.
Diaspora Digital Media DDM gathered that the suit, filed at the federal high court in Abuja, seeks to invalidate the convention of November 15 and 16, which produced a new national leadership for the party amid deepening internal fractures.
The case, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/25012025, was instituted by the PDP’s Wike-aligned acting national chairman, Mohammed Abdulrahman, national secretary Samuel Anyanwu, and the party itself under the control of the faction.
The plaintiffs are asking the court to declare the Ibadan gathering and all decisions taken there as null, void, and without any lawful effect whatsoever.
The faction argues that the convention was convened in open defiance of three subsisting court decisions restraining the party from holding any national elective gathering.
According to filings before the court, the plaintiffs cited judgments delivered on October 31 in FHC/ABJ/CS/2120/2025 involving Austine Nwachukwu v INEC & Ors, as well as rulings issued on November 11 and November 14 in FHC/ABJ/CS/2299/2025 between Alhaji Sule Lamido v PDP & Ors.
They further referenced the May 31, 2023, judgment in FHC/ABJ/CS/139/2023, the case of Nyesom Wike v PDP & Ors, which they claim still binds all parties.
The plaintiffs maintain that the Ibadan convention violated these judicial pronouncements by proceeding despite the restraining orders that had nullified the statutory 21-day notice required for such a gathering.
They insist that the fifth to 25th defendants—including Umar Damagum and Kabiru Turaki, who emerged as new party leaders—wrongfully assembled and conducted elections while also expelling or suspending several prominent party figures.
In an affidavit, national secretary Samuel Anyanwu accused the new leadership group of attempting to forcibly take control of the party’s national secretariat and its Legacy House annex in Abuja on November 18.
He said the move was unsuccessful but alleged that the police and the Department of State Services DSS subsequently sealed both buildings, denying the Wike-backed officers access to their offices.
The plaintiffs now want the court to compel INEC, the Inspector-General of Police, the FCT Police Commissioner, and the DSS to enforce the earlier court rulings.
They are seeking orders restraining the defendants from recognising the Ibadan convention or acknowledging its emerging leadership structure in any capacity.
Additionally, they are asking the court to bar the sixth to 25th defendants from parading themselves as PDP officials until the matter is resolved.
The suit also demands that security agencies provide protection and restore access to Wadata Plaza and Legacy House for the Wike-aligned leadership.
Furthermore, the plaintiffs insist that INEC must not accept any change of address for the PDP beyond the two original Abuja-based locations.
The case has not yet been assigned to a judge, and no hearing date has been scheduled, leaving the PDP locked in another chapter of its long-running internal battle for control.