Court Orders PDP To Proceed With National Convention

The crisis rocking the PDP has taken a new dimension after a   high court in Ibadan,  Oyo ordered the party to go ahead with its planned National Convention.

Recall that a federal high court in Abuja had last week stopped the Convention, slated for November 16 from holding based on a suit filed by some angry members of the party.

Justice James Omotosho while ruling on the suit said the decision to hold the Convention did not comply with the 1999 Constitution.

However, ruling on an ex parte application filed by Folahan Malomo Adelabi, counsel to the PDP, the presiding judge in the Ibadan high court ordered the leadership of the party to proceed with the delegate convention slated for next week.

Listed as defendants in the suit are PDP National Chairman, UmarDamagum, Chairman of the Convention Committee, and Adamawa state governor, Umar Fintiri, and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The PDP counsel in the suit prayed the court to restrain the defendants from preventing the National Convention from holding as earlier scheduled, pending the motion on notice.

“An Order of Interim Injunction directing the 1st — 3rd Defendants, their officers, servants and or agents to hold, conduct and or convene the said elective national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party Scheduled for the 15th and 16th of November, 2025 at Ibadan pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice,” the court document reads.

“An Order of Interim Injunction compelling the defendants to hold, conduct and or convene the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party scheduled for the 15th and 16th November, 2025 at Ibadan to elect officers of the said Party at the National level pending the hearing and determination of Motion on Notice.

“An Order of Interim Injunction directing the 4th Defendant, its servants, agents, officers and or privies to attend, monitor and or observe the elective national convention of the 1″ Defendant scheduled for Ibadan, Oyo State on the 15th and 16th November, 2025 pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice. And for such order or further orders as the Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.”

After A. E. Okelue, counsel to Adelabi, moved the ex-parte application, Akintola granted all the prayers.

“Accordingly, this court finds merit in the claimant/Applicant’s motion ex-parte,” the judge ruled.

“The same succeeds and it is hereby ordered as prayed on the claimant/applicant’s motion Ex-parte dated 3rd November, 2025 and filed on the same date in this case.

“For avoidance of doubt, the interim orders of injunction sought are hereby granted as prayed pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for orders of interlocutory injunction already filed in this case.”