The Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled judgment for Friday in a suit filed by the Senator Adolphus Wabara-led Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), supporting the leadership of Kabiru Turaki (SAN).

According to notices sent to the parties, the judgment to be delivered by Justice Salim Ibrahim is set for 4 pm.

Lawyers for the parties made their final submissions on July 7, after which Justice Ibrahim announced that judgment had been reserved until a date to be communicated.

In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1159/2026, members of the PDP BoT are praying the court, among other things, for an order compelling INEC to recognise the PDP interim National Working Committee (NWC) faction led by Turaki (SAN) on its official website.

They also seek an order directing INEC to update its records and publish on its official website the party’s interim NWC, as forwarded to it by the plaintiffs and its National Executive Committee (NEC).

The plaintiffs said the names of members of the Kabiru Turaki-led NWC were forwarded to INEC through a letter dated May 4.

INEC is listed as the sole defendant in the suit.

The PDP faction loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has challenged the court’s jurisdiction to hear the suit.

During the last proceedings on July 7, the court heard, among other applications, one by members of the Wike-backed PDP executives led by Abdulrahman Mohammed to be made parties in the suit.

The court also heard an application by former Imo PDP Chair Austin Nwachukwu and two other chieftains of the party, Abraham Amah and George Turner, who likewise sought to be made parties and prayed the court to dismiss the suit.

Source: The Nation News