By Suleiman Anyalewechi
A Peoples Democratic party PDP support group, the Opposition Watch Nigeria, OWN, has insisted that the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Nyesom Wike-backed Abdulraham Mohammed-led faction of the PDP is an illegal contraption, without legitimacy.
This is as it called on the Police, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and other relevant authorities to shun all dealings with what it described as illegal leadership.
The group said its findings have revealed that the factional PDP Chairman, Mohammed, is a product of illegality as his emergence is deeply rooted in what it described as “legal nullity”
In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Aisha Bello, OWN noted that the Mohammed-led PDP NWC, and all other structures of the party were midwifed by those who had lost their legal footings and memberships of the PDP as at the time they carried out their actions.
“The leadership of Mohammed Abdulraham, Kamaldeen Ajibade, and others is a legal fiction. You can not build a skyscraper on a swamp”, the group added.
The OWN emphasized that of particular note is that the nomination of Abdulraham on November 3, 2025, was a nullity from the beginning, having been done by duly suspended officials of the party, including Samuel Anyanwu, Umar Bature, and Kamaldeen Ajibade.
According to the support group, the officials were, on November 1, 2025, suspended, adding that under administrative law principles, suspended officials cannot validly exercise the powers of their offices.
The OWN further noted that the suspension order which was based on the reports and recommendations of a disciplinary committee of the party headed by Chief Tom Ikimi, was on January, 12, 2026, affirmed by a Federal Capital Territory FCT High Court.
The body insisted that going by the suspension order, as well as its affirmation by the Court, all actions undertaken by the Wike-backed faction lack legal standing.
The OWN, maintained that Senators Anyanwu’s appeal filed months later on April 10, 2026 does not, in anyway, invalidate the subsisting verdict of the FCT High Court.
“Filing an appeal does not stay execution. Senator Anyanwu remains a legal stranger to the PDP.
“By the time they purported to appoint a leadership, they were already suspended; by the time they sought to consolidate it, they were expelled.
“Every action taken by this group is null, void and in blatant contempt of subsisting judicial orders.
“They lack the locus standi to represent the interests of the PDP”, the group noted.
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