JUST IN: Turaki-led PDP faction reacts to Supreme Court’s ruling on party’s crisis

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faction led by Kabiru Turaki has reacted to the Supreme Court ruling on the party’s leadership crisis.

In a statement, Comrade Ini Ememobong, spokesperson for the faction, said the apex court upheld the nullification of the party’s Ibadan convention.

The judgment was delivered by a five-member panel presided over by Mohammed Garba.

Ememobong said the ruling, which was decided by a split decision, affirmed earlier judgments of the lower courts.

He said the majority held that the appellants were in contempt of a subsisting Federal High Court judgment.

According to him, the minority judgment maintained that the matter was an internal party affair and therefore not justiciable.

“With this split judgment… this effectively leaves the PDP as a party without a defined leadership,” he said.

The faction expressed confidence that party organs would take steps to address the leadership vacuum.

“To this end, we are certain that the existing organs of the party will take the necessary steps to salvage the party and confer leadership on it going forward,” he said.

He, however, warned that the development could affect Nigeria’s multi-party democracy if not properly managed.

“This leads the vehicle of our party towards a dangerous bend, which, if not carefully navigated, may not only affect the party but also multi-party democracy in our country,” he said.