The crisis rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a new dimension on Monday as the faction backed by Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde appointed Tanimu Turaki as chairman of the party’s interim National Working Committee (NWC).
Turaki emerged as head of the 13-member interim NWC during the party’s 103rd National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
This comes barely a few days after the Supreme Court nullified the party’s convention held in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, where Turaki emerged as the PDP chairman.
Three justices of the Supreme Court, in a split decision delivered by a five-member panel, held that the appeal filed by the Turaki-led faction lacked merit and affirmed the concurrent findings of the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal against the conduct of the convention.
Delivering the lead judgement in appeal number SC/CV/164/2026, Justice Stephen Adah held that the parties proceeded with the convention despite a subsisting order of the Federal High Court restraining them from doing so.
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