The Supreme Court has not yet made a decision 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, which has Sule Lamido, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Austin Nwachukwu, and two other people as respondents.
This happened after the processes were made regular 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 to void the party’s national convention in Ibadan overturned.
However, a five-member panel from the highest court said on Wednesday that it would give its decision on a date that would be told to all parties in the appeal.
Justice Garba Mohammed, who was in charge of the five-member panel, made the announcement soon after lawyers for both sides in the appeal used their processes to present their arguments for and against the appeal.
The party’s national executives, who came from the convention and are led by Turaki, filed the appeal.
The steps were taken on Wednesday, the day 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 Kabiru Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC).
The former governor wanted to go to the convention and run for the position of National Chairperson of the PDP.
After the event, Lamido went to court to contest the results of the National Convention.
Lamido told the court that he couldn’t use his basic rights to run for the party’s national chairmanship.
Both the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal in Abuja agreed with his case.
On April 2, the appellants filed their brief of argument, and their team of lawyers, led by Paul Erokoro (SAN), asked the Supreme Court not only to let their appeal go through 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 respondents said that the appeal did not fall within the PDP’s internal affairs, which the Turaki-led group had claimed.
