There are indications that the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, will not know peace for a long time to come as the Board of Trustees, BOT, led by Adolphus Wabara, has filed a suit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), seeking recognition of the party’s interim National Working Committee (iNWC).
In the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1159/2026, filed on June 4 at the Federal High Court in Abuja, the plaintiffs are asking the court to compel INEC to update its records and publish on its official website the names of interim NWC members forwarded to it by the PDP BoT and National Executive Committee, NEC.
The legal action which has INEC as the sole defendant in the matter and initiated by the plaintiffs including: Adolf Wabara, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, Jerry Gana, Olabode George, Maryam Ciroma, Zainab Maina and Esther Uduehi, comes days after the Court of Appeal set aside key parts of a Federal High Court judgment delivered in Ibadan, which had recognised a factional caretaker committee within the PDP.
In an affidavit supporting the suit, former Niger State Governor, Muazu Babangida Aliyu, pointed out that some party officials, including former National Secretary Samuel Anyanwu, were suspended in November 2025 over alleged misconduct, anti-party activities and insubordination.
Aliyu argued that subsequent court decisions upheld the suspensions and nullified the PDP national convention held in November 2025.
According to him, the judgments created vacancies in the party’s leadership structure, prompting the BoT to constitute an interim NWC pending a valid national convention.
Recall, the appellate court, in a unanimous judgment delivered on June 3, held that the trial court granted reliefs that were not sought by the parties.
According to reports, the suit had yet to be assigned to a judge.
