Court docket Points Discover Of Penalties For Disobeying Court docket Order In opposition to INEC Chair, Anyanwu

The Excessive Court docket of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, has issued a discover of penalties of disobedience of court docket order in opposition to the nationwide secretary of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, Samuel Anyanwu and the Chairman of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, Prof Joash Amupitan.

The court docket, in Kind 48 dated twentieth April 2026, cited by our correspondent on Tuesday, warned that they threat imprisonment in the event that they fail to adjust to its January 12, 2026, judgment dismissing Anyanwu’s swimsuit difficult his expulsion from the PDP.

Within the FCT Excessive Court docket, public discover in Go well with No. CV/1050/2025, Anyanwu is listed because the respondent, whereas key PDP figures, together with Damagum, representing the social gathering’s Nationwide Govt Committee, are listed alongside others as judgment collectors/candidates.

Additionally listed within the matter is the INEC chairman, Amupitan.

The discover, titled Kind 48, warned of the results of disobedience to the judgment of the court docket delivered on January 12, 2026.

It learn, “Take discover that until you cease additional disobedience and comply forthwith/obey the judgment/order of the Excessive Court docket of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, made on the twelfth of January 2026, which dismissed the swimsuit of Senator Samual N. Anyanwu difficult his expulsion from the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, you can be responsible of contempt and you can be liable to be dedicated to jail.”

It was particularly directed at Senator Anyanwu and Prof Amupitan, with service indicated at their respective Abuja addresses, in step with enforcement procedures following the court docket’s ruling.

The PDP has been mired in a chronic disaster, splitting into two factions: one led by Tanimu Turaki (SAN) and backed by Governors Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), and the opposite led by Abdulrahman Mohammed, with the help of FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.

A number of fits filed by each camps are nonetheless pending in court docket.

On March 10, 2025, the social gathering’s Nationwide Disciplinary Committee really useful the expulsion of Anyanwu over alleged anti-party actions, a choice later ratified by the management.

On November 15, 2025, throughout the disputed Ibadan conference, the social gathering below Appearing Nationwide Chairman Umar Damagum expelled Anyanwu, Wike, and Ayodele Fayose, although the courts later nullified the conference.

Anyanwu subsequently approached the FCT Excessive Court docket in Go well with No. CV/1050/2025, however on January 12, 2026, Justice Yusuf Halilu dismissed the case.

He then filed an enchantment on April 10, 2026, on the Court docket of Enchantment, Abuja.

Regardless of the authorized battles, Anyanwu performed a key position within the Wike-backed conference held March 29–30, 2026, in Abuja, which produced Mohammed as nationwide chairman and retained him as nationwide secretary, a management later recognised by the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee.

Searching for redress, the Tanimu Turaki-led faction, in a strongly worded letter dated April 16, 2026, and addressed to INEC Chairman, Prof Amupitan, by means of its counsel, Abdullahi Ibrahim (SAN), known as for the fast withdrawal of recognition of Anyanwu as each a celebration member and nationwide secretary.

The letter referenced the January 12, 2026, judgment of the FCT Excessive Court docket, delivered by Justice Halilu in Go well with No. FCT/HC/CV/1050/2025, which dismissed Anyanwu’s case and upheld his expulsion from the PDP.

The management maintained that Anyanwu misplaced his membership from the date of his expulsion and due to this fact lacks the authorized authority to behave on behalf of the social gathering in any capability.

It additional argued that the discover of enchantment filed on April 10, 2026, didn’t quantity to a keep of execution, stressing that the judgment remained legitimate and enforceable below Part 287(3) of the 1999 Structure (as amended).

The letter learn, “Senator Samuel Anyanwu has ceased to be a member and officer of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering and has no competence to behave on behalf of the social gathering in any capability by any means since his expulsion…

“By implication, the judgment dismissing his case stays subsisting and in pressure, and the fee has a constitutional obligation to implement, adjust to, and implement the judgment… even with out prompting from the Peoples Democratic Social gathering.”

Turaki camp warned that “Ought to the fee fail, refuse or neglect to adjust to our calls for and provides any additional recognition to Senator Samual Anyanwu because the nationwide secretary of the social gathering, we will don’t have any additional recourse to the fee concerning the mandatory steps we will absorb guaranteeing that justice is finished on this matter and to our purchasers, which steps could embrace submitting contempt proceedings in opposition to the chairman of the fee in addition to instituting an motion to problem the choice of the fee.”