The Supreme Court has reserved its judgment in the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, seeking to upturn the judgment of the Court of Appeal which nullified the conduct of the party’s national convention.
The convention was held on Nov. 15 -16, 2025, at the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Justice Lawal Garba who led the five-member panel of Justices made the announcement shortly after lawyers representing parties in the appeal adopted their processes as brief of their arguments, for and against the appeal.
Garba said that the judgment would be delivered on a date to be communicated to all parties in the appeal.
The Tanimu Turaki-led faction had asked apex court to overturn the Court of Appeal’s decision invalidating the Ibadan National Convention.
The Turaki group appealed to the apex court, arguing that the matter borders on internal party affairs, which are not justiciable, and that due processes were followed.
‎Lower courts had ruled against the Turaki faction, nullifying the Ibadan Convention, barring INEC from recognising its outcomes, and restricting access to the national secretariat in some rulings.
The suits by Turaki-led PDP are against two the judgments delivered on March 9 affirming two judgments of the Federal High Court in Abuja that ordered the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) not to hold its national convention, until it complied with relevant statutory provisions including the Electoral Act and Regulations and Guidelines for Political Parties (2022).
‎In October 2025, the federal high court in Abuja stopped the PDP faction led by Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo; and Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi; from going ahead with its national convention slated for November 15 and 16 in Ibadan.