Kabiru Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Supreme court to restrain the faction loyal to Nyesom Wike, Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), from conducting its national convention scheduled for March 29 and 30.
The Turaki-led PDP faction on Friday filed an appeal against the judgement of the court of appeal, which upheld the ruling nullifying its national convention held in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, in November 2025.
This was due to the decision of the faction loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike hard-line position to appropriate all the leadership positions in the National Working Committee (NWC).
In the appeal, the PDP faction argued that the court of appeal and the federal high court lack jurisdiction over the matter.
But the FCT minister, who shed light on the upcoming PDP convention, vowed that the convention billed for March 29-30 would go ahead.
Addressing journalists after the NEC meeting that took place at the Bauchi State Government Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja, yesterday, the National Publicity Secretary, Ini Emeombong of the Turaki faction blamed the decision to head to the Supreme Court on the hard line stance of the Wike’s faction.
He said: “As you are aware that other organs of the party are either advisory or act on behalf of NEC and so intermittently NEC must be scheduled so that the decisions taken by other organs on their behalf can be ratified or rejected by them.
“So at this meeting decisions taken by the NWC, decisions taken by the board of trustees, were deliberated upon and ratified.
“But the beauty of negotiation is in the ceding of grounds and time is a critical element in negotiation. So you find that parties who never sat before begin to sit. That negotiation is going somewhere. Immediately, parties previously opposed to sitting together agree to sit. And you can see that between November and today, that negotiation alone has created people who haven’t sat together, people who haven’t greeted each other have greeted. So it is the element of time to achieve the purpose of this negotiation, which is an agreeable consensus and even within the limit of time.
“It is only God can give an answer whether the negotiation will eventually work or not. Only God can give that answer. But our duty is to act in utmost good faith towards that destination.
“But what we said is that the filing of this appeal does not inhibit the reconciliation processes. The moment agreeable terms are met, parties, I mean courts are usually very happy when parties approach them for discontinuance or withdrawal. So that appeal had been filed and other subsequent legal actions had been taken to protect the position of the party.
“Yes, like we said, we do know that reconciliation is a journey towards a destination and so you measure it by movement. So movement is being done along that line, the destination of reconciliation will be met and you can bear with me that we have a situation of negative peace at the moment, at least a cessation of hostility. So you’re not finding both sides trading blames and hot tackles.
“You’re finding de-escalation in rhetoric, hurtful rhetoric and the rest. And so what is there is that the journey of reconciliation is on course, the journey of reconciliation, the bus has left the station, the train has left the station, but has it arrived at reconciliation? No. Has it passed some bus stations and train stations? The answer is yes.”
However, there are strong indications that the proposed National Convention of the Wike-led may be stalled following fresh legal moves at the Court of Appeal, Ibadan. The PDP faction filed a fresh appeal at the Supreme Court, dated March 27, 2026.
The Supreme Court appeal has the following references, SC/No/CV/1613/2925/, Suit no/ FHV/ ABJ/vs/2120/2925. It was filed Friday, March 27, 2026.