Supreme Court Judgment: BOT Takes Over Leadership Of PDP

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has assumed national leadership of the party following a ruling by the Supreme Court of Nigeria that nullified key party structures. In a press statement issued on Thursday, April 30, 2026, and signed by BoT Chairman Adolphus Wabara, the party’s highest advisory body said its decision was aimed at preventing a leadership vacuum and stabilising the PDP. Full Press Statement Assumption of National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by the Board of Trustees (BoT). It is with the utmost sense of duty and responsibility that the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) assumes leadership of our great party today, Thursday, 30th April, 2026 pursuant to the empowering provisions of the Constitution of the PDP (As amended in 2017). This constitutional intervention of the BoT is so as not to allow any leadership vacuum at the national level of our party following judgment of the Supreme Court. Sadly, the Supreme Court, today delivered an unpleasant judgment against our party in which it pronounced an invalidation of the 15th to 16th November 2025 National Convention of the PDP held in Ibadan, Oyo State, which produced the Kabiru Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee of our Party. While the Supreme Court invalidated the Ibadan Convention, it also in a unanimous decision of the five justices on the panel, upheld the suspension of Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Hon. Umar Bature, Kamaldeen Ajibade as National Secretary, National Organizing Secretary and National Legal Adviser respectively from the Party. The implication of today’s judgment by the Supreme Court is that all actions taken by Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Hon. Umar Bature and Barr. Kamaldeen Ajibade including the appointment of Abdulrahman Mohammed as Acting National Chairman, the composition of the National Caretaker Working Committee...