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PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Pakute(op): 8:32am On Nov 26, 2025

The struggle for control of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) intensified on Tuesday as loyalists of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, headed to the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to overturn the party’s November 15–16 national convention in Ibadan.

The faction wants the court to declare the convention invalid and to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising any officers or decisions that emerged from it.

In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/2501/2025, the plaintiffs, the PDP, Acting National Chairman Mohammed Abdulrahman, and National Secretary Samuel Anyanwu, asked the court to declare the November 15–16 Ibadan convention and all decisions taken there as “null, void, and of no effect.”

The plaintiffs, all loyal to the Wike camp, insist that the convention was conducted in blatant disregard of three subsisting judgments of the Federal High Court.

They argued that the court had previously nullified the 21-day notice issued for the convention and expressly restrained the party from conducting any such exercise.

In the originating summons, the plaintiffs cited:

The October 31 judgment in FHC/ABJ/CS/2120/2025 (Austine Nwachukwu v INEC & Ors);

The interim order of November 11 and judgment of November 14 in FHC/ABJ/CS/2299/2025 (Sule Lamido v PDP & Ors);

The May 31, 2023 judgment in FHC/ABJ/CS/139/2023 (Nyesom Wike v PDP & Ors).

Despite these rulings, the plaintiffs alleged that the 5th to 25th defendants, including Acting National Chairman Umar Damagum, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, and other prominent members, organised themselves and their cohorts and convened the Ibadan convention where national officers were elected and key party members expelled.

In an affidavit, Anyanwu said the Damagum-led group attempted on November 18 to “forcibly take control” of the PDP national secretariat at Wadata Plaza and Legacy House in Abuja.

According to him, instead of enforcing the court orders, the police and Department of State Services “sealed up the premises” and blocked legitimate officials from accessing their offices.

“The 2nd to 4th defendants have now sealed up the premises of the 1st plaintiff and denied the 2nd and 3rd plaintiffs access to their offices,” the affidavit stated.

The plaintiffs asked the court to declare that INEC, the Inspector-General of Police, the FCT Commissioner of Police, and the DSS are constitutionally bound to enforce the earlier judgments.

They also seek:

An order restraining INEC and security agencies from recognising the Ibadan convention or any decisions taken there;

An order preventing the 6th to 25th defendants from parading themselves as PDP officials;

A directive compelling the security agencies to provide protection for the plaintiffs and grant them access to Wadata Plaza and Legacy House;

An order stopping INEC from accepting any change of the PDP’s official address other than its two Abuja locations.

The plaintiffs further asked the court to determine whether any authority can lawfully recognise the Ibadan convention in view of the subsisting judgments, the Constitution, the Electoral Act, and the PDP Constitution.

The suit has not yet been assigned to a judge, and no date has been fixed for the hearing.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/11/pdp-crisis-worsens-as-wike-camp-sues-to-nullify-ibadan-convention/

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by kgr8mike(m): 8:39am On Nov 26, 2025*

If you Yerima Wike, Wike will Fubara. PDP should Yerima Wike and he will Fubara immediately.

And now may every Wike in your life be Yerimad. Make it a prayer

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Win12345: 8:41am On Nov 26, 2025

okay, the north betrayed pdp and abandoned it for Wike now they want the same pdp.

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by NaijaHelper1(m): 8:41am On Nov 26, 2025*

Wike the weapon fashioned against himself and everybody who comes close to him. A menace. A criminal whose law licence ought to have been revoked if this were a sane country.

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by NewLife14(m): 8:42am On Nov 26, 2025*

PDP is finished kpatakpata grin

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by uhulexy: 8:43am On Nov 26, 2025

You can't eat your cake and have it. Wike should stop all these nonsense ASAP

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Judemarco31(m): 8:45am On Nov 26, 2025

I believe that Wike is Fubarized already by the convention

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Dalohad: 8:45am On Nov 26, 2025

InJustices Omotosho and Lifu, oya do your thing.

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Afriifa(m): 8:45am On Nov 26, 2025

Who ever is celeberating the crisis in the PDP are enemies of Nigeria. You don't have to support the PDP to know that multiple parties strengthens our democracy and ensure good governance as it offers room for competition, and options for Nigeria's to choose

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Disenfranchised: 8:46am On Nov 26, 2025

What goes up must come down. Potential energy is the most transient energy ever.

Wike wake up to reality and smell the coffee.

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Dalohad: 8:46am On Nov 26, 2025

Wike will be Yerimaed again.. grin

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by kakaG: 8:52am On Nov 26, 2025

Irrelevance gradually knocking on the door. People fail to understand that one is only important for what he or she is used for and outside that useless.

Truth and irony of life is that a weapon handler is always also afraid of the weapon he wields.

Incase you need interpretation, if you are used to perpetrate evil that will ever be what you worth. You'd be useless outside that function and even those using you will keep you at arms length.

Nonsense

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by SlavaUkraini: 8:53am On Nov 26, 2025

And the Wike camp are ready to drag this case until 2027, just to make sure that the PDP produces no "valid candidates" ...

Which was their initial game plan

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by tnerro1(m): 8:53am On Nov 26, 2025

You say na early December party dem go do for Ibadan, yet you still go court to declare the party illegal, I think the makinde faction is in the driving seat of this battle

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by princeade86(m): 8:54am On Nov 26, 2025

We waiting for court to give him support as usual. At least he built houses for them.

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by accused(m): 8:55am On Nov 26, 2025

PDp is on fast lane to Aso Rock,come what may tinubu and his minor demons cant and wont stop them.Great mean all pass through storms like our janjawwed Apc demons but we wont and never stop.

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by jiz: 8:58am On Nov 26, 2025

Wike de smoke Igbo in his own voice grin

Pakute:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/11/pdp-crisis-worsens-as-wike-camp-sues-to-nullify-ibadan-convention/

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Helinuss: 8:58am On Nov 26, 2025

This demon no dey rest. Na wa oo

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Ebeano49(m): 8:58am On Nov 26, 2025

Case will be assigned to Omotosho ... and we all know the rest of the story

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by ElevationD: 9:00am On Nov 26, 2025

I thought that they already had their own faction? With no office for Anyanwu to sit. No office for Wike’s factional to sit and no INEC recognition, Wike has resorted to the only place where he can operate. The court! Why go to court? Clearly Wike and his co-sojourners saw their failure. They were expelled and it must remain so.

The same convention that Wike and co declared as illegal. The same convention that they too before Omotosho to stop. Why not wait for Omotosho? The same convention that some governors failed to attend and because of Wike. The same convention that some governors said that they did not support Wike’s expulsion? What’s stopping Wike from officially carrying himself and his group, including the Rivers Governor and entire assembly officially to APC? It is very obvious that they are all waiting until just before the next elections to officially decamp.

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by reddingtonblack: 9:01am On Nov 26, 2025

Wike fraction dont have the requisite to be recognize by INEC, inec have said it multiple times we dont recognise your chairman

So how can wike fraction make a prayer to INec .. when inec considers you illegitimate

So on what grounds will INEC nullify the convention, inec presence or absence at convention is optional as they deem fit

if you invite a enemy to your party what is the enemy coming to do .. we all know Wike as sworn allegiance to Tinubu re election ... there is nothing Seyi fraction will do or say that will reconcile both fractions, wike excuse they didnt call them, is pointless a joke.

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Finquas: 9:02am On Nov 26, 2025

Wike has been yerimaad and makindead.. he should just stop making irrelevant noise and rest.. his time of relevance in the scheme of things has expired cool

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by ogolemati: 9:06am On Nov 26, 2025

kgr8mike:
If you Yerima Wike, Wike will Fubara. PDP should Yerima Wike and he will Fubara immediately.

And now may every Wike in your life be Yerimad. Make it a prayer

yarimo come and see .pray pray the agbero chairman River State has been yerimarized

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Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Guestmale: 9:06am On Nov 26, 2025

Afriifa:
Who ever is celeberating the crisis in the PDP are enemies of Nigeria. You don't have to support the PDP to know that multiple parties strengthens our democracy and ensure good governance as it offers room for competition, and options for Nigeria's to choose

PDP should allow us to rest ,we have more important things to face as a country,moreover, PDP is not the only opposition party we have in Nigeria, there are several other opposition parties

Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by peleson1: 9:07am On Nov 26, 2025

Pakute:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/11/pdp-crisis-worsens-as-wike-camp-sues-to-nullify-ibadan-convention/

@fergio what have you to say here ?

Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by Deefirm: 9:12am On Nov 26, 2025

What next Wike? A drowning MAN!!!!

Pakute:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/11/pdp-crisis-worsens-as-wike-camp-sues-to-nullify-ibadan-convention/

Re: PDP Crisis: Wike's Camp Drags INEC To Court, Seeks To Nullify Ibadan Convention by obataokenwa(m): 9:20am On Nov 26, 2025

Its now boring. Wike has turned to Tinubus olomo. An outsider fighting duely elected officials, governors of same party for a party structure. Here you see a Nigerian judge with nonsense judgement