A federal high court in Abuja has barred a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Kabiru Turaki from accessing the party’s national secretariat.
Joyce Abdulmalik, the presiding judge, issued the ruling on Monday in a lawsuit brought by PDP members who supported Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike.
Additionally, the court ordered security services, such as the Department of State Services and the Nigerian Police Force, to secure the Wike-backed faction’s access to and use of the party’s national headquarters.
According to Abdulmalik, the national convention held in Ibadan on November 15 and 16, 2025, which gave rise to the Turaki-led faction, was carried out in violation of ongoing court rulings.
Citing a violation of both the PDP’s constitution and section 287(3) of the 1999 constitution (as modified), he declared that the exercise amounted to a nullity.
The judge described the expulsion of Wike and his allies from the party during the 2025 convention as an affront to the order of court.
“I considered the expulsion of the members of the plaintiffs as not only an affront to the subsisting judgement, but also a direct assault on a democratic and principled society,” the judge said.
“All proceedings, resolutions and decisions taken at the said convention, including the suspension of members of the first plaintiff, were unconstitutional, unlawful, null and void, and of no effect.”
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