PDP disaster: Turaki faction slams INEC for recognising Wike’s camp
The Kabiru Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Occasion Nationwide Working Committee has criticised the Unbiased 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 a press release by its Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, on Thursday, warned that it will pursue all obtainable authorized choices to problem the fee’s motion.
Final Friday, a Federal Excessive Courtroom 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 celebration.
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.
Nevertheless, the FCT Minister, alongside his allies Abdulrahman Mohammed and Senator Samuel Anyanwu, insisted they remained the Appearing Nationwide Chairman and Appearing Nationwide Secretary, respectively.
Although 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 looking for official recognition, however the electoral physique declined to acknowledge both aspect, sparking a number of authorized disputes because the 2027 basic elections draw nearer.
Reacting to the courtroom resolution, the Turaki-led PDP NWC, by means of its Publicity Secretary Ini Ememobong, introduced that its authorized crew had been directed to file a right away enchantment and pursue all obtainable authorized cures.
In the meantime, the Wike-backed faction applauded the ruling barring Turaki and others from functioning because the celebration’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 offered 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 known as on celebration members to remain peaceable and affected person whereas awaiting the decision of the continued courtroom circumstances regarding the celebration’s management disaster.
The assertion partly learn, “We’re conscious that the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee invited the leaders of political events to a gathering immediately and prolonged the invitation to some former members of our celebration who’re purporting to steer a so-called Nationwide Caretaker Committee to symbolize our celebration, whereas there isn’t any 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 potential authorized responses. Although not surprising of this present INEC management, it’s anticipated that an neutral umpire would have taken discover of the pendency of the issues within the Courtroom of Enchantment (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 will guarantee that INEC won’t select a management for our celebration.
“Consequently, we urge all our members to stay calm and hopeful that, soonest, the Courtroom of Enchantment will hear and decide all of the circumstances regarding the management of our celebration.
“We guarantee that the Rebirth motion of our celebration, underneath the in a position management of Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, is regular and safe, and can in the end surmount all these challenges to current a stronger and extra united celebration to Nigerians as a reputable various to the ruling celebration that has introduced untold sorrows, tears, and blood to Nigerians.”