The Supreme Court has not yet decided on the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) about its convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, in November 2025, which was canceled.
The court made a decision in the case it was hearing, which included Sule Lamido, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Austin Nwachukwu, and two other people.
This happened after the processes were made official and the substantive appeal was heard.
The Taminu Turaki-led group of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) went to the Supreme Court to try to get the Court of Appeal’s decision, which invalidated the party’s national convention in Ibadan, overturned.
But on Wednesday, a five-member panel of the highest court said that it would announce its decision on a date that would be sent to all parties in the appeal.
Justice Garba Mohammed, who was in charge of the five-member panel, made the announcement right after the lawyers for both sides of the appeal submitted their briefs of their arguments for and against the appeal.
The national executives of the party that Turaki led and came out of the convention filed the appeal.
On Wednesday, the steps were taken after the highest court started hearing cases that had to do with the opposition party’s leadership and activities.
Naija News also remembers that Lamido wasn’t allowed to go to the PDP’s Ibadan National Convention, which led to the formation of the National Working Committee (NWC) led by Kabiru Turaki.
The former governor wanted to go to the convention and run for the position of National Chairperson of the PDP.
After that, Lamido went to court to challenge the results of the National Convention.
Lamido told the court that he couldn’t use his basic rights to run for the national chairmanship of the party.
Both the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal in Abuja agreed with his case.
The appellants, led by Paul Erokoro (SAN) and their team of lawyers, asked the Supreme Court to not only allow their appeal but also to throw out a cross-appeal filed against them by a leadership group in the party that supports the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
At the same time, Lamido, who was represented by Mr. J. C. Njikonye (SAN), and the Wike-backed group, who were represented by Joseph Daudu (SAN), filed preliminary objections asking for the appeal to be thrown out.
The people who answered said that the appeal was not part of the PDP’s internal affairs, which is what the Turaki-led group said it was.
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