The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), to investigate Senator Samuel Anyanwu and Hon. Abdulrahman Mohammed for allegedly providing false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the leadership of the party.
Filed by Ogbeide Associates, solicitors to the PDP, the petition centres on a letter dated November 3, 2025 to INEC.
The petition claimed that the letter stated that the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) suspended the Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Iliya Damagum, and replaced him with Hon. Abdulrahman Mohammed.
The law firm argued that the claim was inconsistent with resolutions passed at the party’s 608th Emergency NWC meeting held on November 1, 2025.
It said the meeting resolved to suspend Senator Anyanwu and three other party officers over alleged anti-party activities, adding that there was no resolution, minutes or attendance record to back claims that the NWC suspended Damagum or appointed Mohammed as acting chairman.
The petition also noted that the official attendance register of the meeting showed that Anyanwu was not present while Mohammed was present and alleged that the latter had first-hand knowledge of the decisions taken before the controversial letter was sent to INEC.
Ogbeide Associates also referred to the judgment of a Federal High Court delivered on October 10, 2024, in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/579/2024, which it said recognised Damagum as Acting National Chairman and barred INEC from acting on documents not bearing his signature.
It was stated in the petition that Senator Anyanwu had sent the judgment to INEC for compliance in November 2024. It further stated that the Court of Appeal in a judgment delivered on March 9, 2026, upheld the suspension of Anyanwu by the NWC.
The petition also called on the police to probe how INEC handled the November 3, 2025 letter when it had the court judgment and the NWC’s suspension resolution in its possession, apart from seeking an investigation into Anyanwu and Mohammed.
“This petition has nothing to do with personalities. “It is about whether public institutions can be misled with documents that do not reflect the true position of internal party processes, and whether such conduct will be investigated as the law requires,” counsel to the petitioner said.
The law firm has called on the Nigeria Police Force to treat the matter with all seriousness, saying the petitioner is ready to provide relevant court judgments and internal party records to back up the investigation.
