The PDP’s Taminu Turaki group has appealed the Court of Appeal’s decision to invalidate last year’s national convention in Ibadan, but the Supreme Court has so far declined to rule on the matter.
The five-judge panel of the highest court said on Wednesday that it will inform all parties involved in the appeal of the date it will deliver its decision.
Following the adoption of procedures as briefs of arguments, both pro and con, by the attorneys representing the parties in the appeal, Justice Garba Mohammed, who presided over the five-member panel, delivered the announcement.
The Tanimu Turaki-led PDP faction had gone to the highest court to contest the decision of the Court of Appeal, which had declared the convention invalid since it had been convened in defiance of a legitimate court order.
You may remember that last year, Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja issued a judgement that prevented the PDP national executive committee, headed by Ambassador Iliya Damagum, from holding its convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, on November 15 and 16, 2026.
The former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, is running for the position of national chairman and was previously ordered by Justice Lifu to wait until he could purchase nomination and interest forms before the convention could begin to elect national officers.
In spite of the court’s orders, the party group proceeded with the convention.
Justice Lifu’s court did not have the authority to halt the convention, according to the PDP faction, because the problem at hand was a political party internal, which no court has the authority to investigate.
Last month, however, the court of appeals disagreed with the lower court’s assessment that the matter at hand was a political party internal matter that courts are not authorised to consider.
Following the convention’s disobedience to the decision of the Federal High Court, Abuja, the three-member panel of the appellate court subsequently invalidated its outcome.
The PDP camp was unhappy and went to the highest court in the land to ask it to accept their appeal of the lower court’s decision, overturn it, and declare that the issue was a private matter that the Federal High Court and Court of Appeal did not have the authority to handle.
On the other hand, the respondents strongly requested that the court reject the appeal due to its lack of merit.