Lamido Secures Order Halting PDP Convention
A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja has halted the planned national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) slated to hold in Ibadan from November 15 to 16, 2025.
The party was dragged before the court by former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, a foundation member of the PDP.
In an ex-parte application moved by his counsel, Jephthah Njikonye, SAN, Lamido sought an interim order to stop the convention, pending the hearing and determination of his case.
In a ruling on Tuesday morning, Justice Peter Lifu held that the plaintiff’s application had merit and deserving of the court’s intervention.
To this end, the judge restrained the PDP from convening the convention pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.
The court also barred the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from monitoring or recognising the planned convention pending the resolution of the suit filed by Lamido.
Justice Lifu noted that the plaintiff, being a bona fide member of the PDP with an interest in the position of national chairman, would suffer greater hardship if the interim order was not granted.
He added that he saw no reason to depart from the earlier decision of Justice James Omotosho of the same court, delivered on October 31, 2025, which similarly halted the PDP’s national convention and restrained INEC from monitoring or recognising same.
The hearing of the substantive suit is to begin by 1pm.
