Again, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been stopped from proceeding with its planned National Convention scheduled for November 15 and 16, 2025, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The new order was given by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The convention was intended to elect new national officers to pilot the affairs of the party.
A former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, through an ex-parte application moved by his counsel, Jephthah Njikonye, SAN, sought an interim order stopping the convention pending the hearing and determination of a motion on notice.
In a ruling delivered today November 11, Justice Peter Lifu held that the plaintiff’s application had merit and was deserving of the court’s intervention. Consequently, the judge restrained the PDP from convening the convention pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.
The court also barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from monitoring or recognising the planned convention pending the resolution of the suit filed by Lamido.
Justice Lifu noted that the plaintiff, a bona fide member of the PDP with an interest in the position of national chairman, would suffer greater hardship if the interim order was not granted. He added that he saw no reason to depart from the earlier decision of Justice James Omotosho of the same court, delivered on October 31, 2025, which similarly halted the PDP’s national convention and restrained INEC from monitoring or recognising it.
