By Abiola Olawale
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken another turn on Tuesday as the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has cleared the party to proceed with its scheduled elective National Convention on November 15 and 16, 2025.
The judgment was delivered in a ruling by the Presiding Judge of the High Court, Justice A. L. Akintola.
The presiding judge granted an interim order allowing the party to hold the convention as planned in Ibadan, Oyo State.
Justice Akintola, in his judgment also directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to attend, monitor, and observe the exercise pending the hearing and determination of the substantive motion on notice.
The New Diplomat reports that a judge gave the ruling after an ex parte application was filed by Folahan Adelabi against the PDP, its Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum; Governor Umaru Fintiri (representing the National Convention Organising Committee); and INEC.
Adelabi, the claimant, had urged the court to restrain the defendants from truncating, frustrating, or disrupting the timetable, guidelines, and schedule of activities leading to the convention.
After hearing the motion on Monday, Justice Akintola held that the claimant successfully demonstrated the need for urgent judicial intervention.
“The court finds merit in the claimant’s motion ex parte. The same succeeds and is hereby ordered as prayed,” the judge ruled.
Justice Akintola further adjourned the hearing of the motion on notice for interlocutory injunction to November 10, 2025.
The latest court judgment came after Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja stopped the planned 2025 National Convention of the PDP until the party complies with the statutory requirements of the party, the Constitution, and the Electoral Act.
Delivering judgment in a suit filed by three aggrieved members of the party, the judge also restrained the INEC from accepting a report on the outcome of any national convention of the party without following the due process of the law, as well as its guidelines and regulations.
