Imo PDP hails nullification of Nat PDP  convention by FHC Ibadan 

…says we have been vindicated

From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri

The leadership of the Imo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hails the judgment of Ibadan Federal High Court  for nullifying the national convention of the people’s Democratic Party held on November 15, 2025, in Ibadan, Oyo state.

The Court also barred Kabiru Turaki and others from parading themselves as national officers of the PDP.

It also ruled that the Caretaker Committee led by Abdulrahman Mohammed and Senator Samuel Anyanwu is the only recognised NWC of the PDP pending the conduct of a valid National Convention

In a statement on Friday by the state publicity Secretary, Lancelot  Obiaku, said that the  plotters of the convention in their desperation, desecrated the party’s constitution, the Electoral Act, and the constitution of the country with a phantom convention that paraded suspended and expelled members as part of the organizers, without delegates from Ebonyi, Anambra and Enugu States and thirteen other States, which had no valid State Executive.

Obiaku pointed out that the plotters also disobeyed binding and subsisting judgments of the Federal High Court, Abuja, delivered by Hon. Justice James Omotosho on October 31, 2025, and Hon. Justice Peter Odo Lifu on November 14, 2025, which, he said was an  abuse of process, constitutional infractions and other irregularities, including the usurpation of the powers and functions of the National Secretary and National Organizing Secretary, ordered the halt of any convention until the party complies with its constitution and guidelines.

The statement read , “The Imo State chapter of PDP sees today’s judgment as a victory for constitutional democracy, institutional order, rule of law, and internal party democracy.

It was instructive to make it clear that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) obeyed the court judgments and refused to monitor or validate the illegal convention. INEC’s principled position was seen as a powerful reinforcement of the fact that the impunity exhibited in the Ibadan assembly, or any decision reached there, cannot stand.

We are therefore upbeat that the judgment will go a long way to further stabilize and strengthen our party, boost the confidence of Nigerians and Imolites in it, having shutdown the efforts of detractors and paved the way for the party to continue thriving as Nigeria’s leading opposition party.

Imo PDP reiterates its confidence in the Abdulrahman Mohammed-led National Caretaker Committee and our leader in the State and National Secretary of the Caretaker Committee, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu; Sen. Mao Ohuabunwa as BoT Chairman; and Hon. Austin Nwachukwu as our State Chairman.”