Justice James Omotosho of the federal high court Abuja has declined to grant an interim order stopping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from holding its planned meetings and national convention.
Justice Omotosho in a ruling delivered on Thursday, in the suit FHC/ABJ/CS/2120/2025, filed by Austine Nwachukwu, PDP chairman in Imo state; Amah Abraham Nnanna, chairman of the Abia state chapter; and Turnah George, the south-south secretary of the party refused the plaintiffs’ ex parte application seeking interim injunctions to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the PDP from proceeding with the party’s scheduled leadership meetings and convention.
He however ordered the plaintiffs to serve all the defendants with their motion on notice for interlocutory injunction.
The judge directed all parties to avoid any step or decision that could nullify the court’s eventual ruling.
The plaintiffs are asking that the party’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting scheduled for October 18 and the national convention scheduled for November 15–16 be stopped or restrained until the main application is heard and determined.
They also prayed the court “to bar INEC from monitoring or taking part in any PDP leadership meetings, including its planned NEC, caucus, or NWC meetings, slated for October 15, or any later date,” until their substantive application for injunction is determined.
Reports say the plaintiffs are believed to be allies of Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), who has openly opposed the planned PDP national convention.
Recall in June, Wike met with some members of the PDP from south-south and south-east in a bid to stop the planned national convention.
The matter was adjourned to October 14 for hearing the motion on notice for an interlocutory injunction.
