PDP: Turaki Group Loses as Supreme Court Declines Push for Stay of Execution, Fixes April 22 for Accelerated Hearing
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has declined to grant the request of the Kabiru Turaki led factional leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for stay of execution of the Appeal Court judgement that upheld the nulification of the Governor Seyi Makinde led factional national convention held in November 2025 in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The Turaki led group had approached the apex court and sought to stop the March 29th and 30th nationalconventionof the PDP that produced the National Working Committee (NWC) led by Hon Abdulrahman Mohammed (NationalChairman) and Senator Samuel Anyanwu (National Secretary).
However, when the court convened on Tuesday, the five-man panel of jurists led by Justice Mohammed Garba declined to grant the stay, but granted expedited hearing of the appeals.
The appellants — PDP, its national working committee (NWC), and national executive committee (NEC) — had, in a motion filed on April 8 through their team of lawyers led by Chris Uche, a senior advocate of Nigeria SAN, prayed for a departure from the supreme court rules and the abridgement of time for all respondents to file their briefs of argument.
The Court granted accelerated hearing of the matter in the “interest of Justice” as following the timetable published by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which has already fixed April 23, 2026 as the commencement date for candidate submission by political.
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