FHC Orders Police, DSS to Protect Abdulrahaman Mohammed Led PDP NWC at Wadata Plaza
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday ordered Nigerian security agencies including the Nigerian Police Force (NPF), the Department of State Services (DSS) and others to provide adequate security for the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by Abdulrahaman Mohammed and Senator Samuel Anyanwu, National Chairman and National Secretary respectively.
The court also effectively barred the Kabiru Turaki led group within the party from going near the PDP National Secretariat.
Honourable Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, while delivering the judgment also nullified the convention held in Ibadan, Oyo State, in November 2025, through which the Turaki-led national executives emerged.
The court further specifically restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), from recognising the outcome of that convention, which it said was done in defiance to a subsisting court order.
The judgment followed a suit filed before the court on November 21, 2025, by the then interim factional Chairman and Secretary of the party, Mohammed Abdulrahman and Samuel Anyanwu, respectively.
In her judgment, Justice Abdulmalik held that the purported convention held in Ibadan between 15 and 16 November 2025, including the election of party officials and expulsion of some notable members of the party, violated section 287(3) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, as well as the party’s constitution and prior court orders
She held that the said expulsion of members of the party belonging to the plaintiffs’ camp was not only an affront to subsisting court pronouncments, but also a direct assault to the democracy and the rule of law
The court, therefore, invalidated all proceedings, resolutions and decisions that were reached at the said convention, including the suspension of members of the first plaintiff, declaring them as unconstitutional, unlawful, null and void, and of no effect.
According to the court, Section 287(3) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, empowered it to enforce valid orders made by courts in the country.
Justice Abdulmalik held that political parties were bound to operate within the provisions of their constitutions