PDP disaster: Turaki faction slams INEC for recognising Wike’s camp

The Kabiru Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party Nationwide Working Committee has criticised the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee for recognising the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesome Wike-backed caretaker committee, describing the transfer as unconstitutional and provocative.

The Turaki-led NWC in an announcement by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, on Thursday, warned that it might pursue all out there authorized choices to problem the fee’s motion.

Final Friday, a Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Ibadan nullified the PDP Nationwide Conference held on November 15, 2025, in Ibadan, Oyo State, and directed Tanimu Turaki (SAN) and several other others to stop parading themselves as nationwide officers of the get together.

Previous to the judgment, PDP governors had backed the Ibadan Conference that produced Turaki and members of the Nationwide Working Committee for a four-year tenure.

Nonetheless, the FCT Minister, alongside his allies Abdulrahman Mohammed and Senator Samuel Anyanwu, insisted they remained the Appearing Nationwide Chairman and Appearing Nationwide Secretary, respectively.

Though the governors facilitated a transition from former Chairman Umar Damagum to Turaki forward of Damagum’s tenure expiration on December 9, the Wike-aligned camp established a 13-member caretaker committee on December 8, naming Mohammed, Anyanwu, and others to serve with a 60-day mandate.

Subsequently, each the governors’ bloc and the Wike-aligned faction approached INEC searching for official recognition, however the electoral physique declined to acknowledge both aspect, sparking a number of authorized disputes because the 2027 common elections draw nearer.

Reacting to the courtroom choice, the Turaki-led PDP NWC, via its Publicity Secretary Ini Ememobong, introduced that its authorized group had been directed to file a right away attraction and pursue all out there authorized cures.

In the meantime, the Wike-backed faction applauded the ruling barring Turaki and others from functioning because the get together’s Nationwide Working Committee and pledged to organise a recent conference to elect new NWC members.

Because of this, INEC on Thursday, formally acknowledged the Wike-backed Caretaker Committee, with people introduced as Appearing Chairman, Appearing Secretary, and Nationwide Organising Secretary representing the PDP on the fee’s quarterly consultative assembly with political events in Abuja.

In response, Ememobong referred to as on get together members to remain peaceable and affected person whereas awaiting the decision of the continuing courtroom circumstances regarding the get together’s management disaster.

The assertion partly learn, “We’re conscious that the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee invited the leaders of political events to a gathering in the present day and prolonged the invitation to some former members of our get together who’re purporting to guide a so-called Nationwide Caretaker Committee to symbolize our get together, whereas there is no such thing as a such provision in our structure.

“This motion, although ordinarily vexatious and able to inflicting a widespread breach of peace, will probably be met with all doable authorized responses. Although not sudden of this present INEC management, it’s anticipated that an neutral umpire would have taken discover of the pendency of the issues within the Court docket of Appeal (together with the judgment which they’re relying upon), which, when determined, will successfully have an effect on the topic into consideration, and exercised restraint therefrom. We are able to guarantee that INEC won’t select a management for our get together.

“Consequently, we urge all our members to stay calm and hopeful that, soonest, the Court docket of Appeal will hear and decide all of the circumstances regarding the management of our get together.

“We guarantee that the Rebirth motion of our get together, beneath the in a position management of Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, is regular and safe, and can finally surmount all these challenges to current a stronger and extra united get together to Nigerians as a reputable various to the ruling get together that has introduced untold sorrows, tears, and blood to Nigerians.”