PDP BoT dismisses courtroom judgment, backs Turaki management

The Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party has dismissed the judgment of the Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Ibadan on the get together’s November 2025 nationwide conference as educational and of no sensible impact.

This was disclosed in a press release issued on Friday and signed by the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara.

The BoT stated the judgment doesn’t have an effect on the standing of the Kabiru Turaki-led Nationwide Working Committee, noting that the substantive points within the matter are already earlier than the Court docket of Appeal.

“The Board of Trustees notes that the judgment is technically of no impact and at finest, educational because the central and basic points within the matter are already earlier than the Court docket of Appeal,” the assertion learn.

The trustees expressed concern that the courtroom granted reliefs not sought by any of the events.

“It’s nevertheless a matter of concern that the courtroom, in declining the order of mandamus sought by our get together… went past the boundaries to grant reliefs that weren’t prayed by any of the events within the case,” the BoT stated.

In response to the assertion, the PDP has filed a Discover of Appeal and a Movement for Keep of Execution, which successfully locations the judgment in abeyance.

“This places the judgment of the Federal Excessive Court docket, Ibadan, in abeyance and retains the Kabiru Tanimu Turaki-led Nationwide Working Committee which was duly elected on the Ibadan Conference legally and firmly on the saddle,” it added.

The BoT assured get together members and supporters that there was no trigger for alarm, describing itself because the conscience and second highest organ of the get together.

“The Turaki-led NWC is securely in place,” Wabara stated.

The trustees additionally reaffirmed their help for the present management as it really works in direction of repositioning the get together forward of the 2027 common elections.

“The Board reaffirms its dedication and help for the Turaki-led NWC in its efforts to stabilise and strengthen the get together on the trail of victory forward of the 2027 common elections,” the assertion concluded.

The Federal Excessive Court docket in Ibadan had voided the PDP Nationwide Conference held on November 15 and 16, 2025, restraining Turaki and others from holding themselves out as nationwide officers of the get together.

Reacting to the ruling, Turaki described the judgment as educational and conflicting with subsisting orders of courts of coordinate jurisdiction, including that the get together had already approached the Court docket of Appeal.

He stated the Nationwide Working Committee produced by the Ibadan conference stays legally intact pending the appellate courtroom’s last dedication.