Court bars Turaki-led PDP faction from national secretariat

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.

Delivering judgment on Monday, Justice Joyce Abdulmalik granted the order in a suit filed by PDP members loyal to Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory.

The court also directed security agencies, including the police and the Department of State Services,(DSS) to provide protection for the Wike-backed faction to operate from the party’s headquarters.

Justice Abdulmalik ruled that the PDP national convention held in Ibadan in November 2025, which produced the Turaki-led faction, was conducted in violation of subsisting court orders and is therefore null and void.

“I considered the expulsion of the members of the plaintiffs as not only an affront to the subsisting judgment, but also a direct assault on a democratic and principled society.

“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,” the judge said.

The court further restrained the Turaki-led group from parading itself as the PDP leadership or interfering with party properties, including the national secretariat.

It also barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising any address for the party other than the one already in its records.