Says Ibadan Convention to hold as planned
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it is aware of plots by agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to destabilise the opposition political parties to achieve a one-party state in the country.
This was as the National Vice Chairman (South-West), Kamorudeen Toyese, reaffirmed that the party’s Elective National Convention scheduled for November 15 and 16, 2025, in Ibadan will hold as planned
While blaming the various conflicting judicial pronouncements on the ruling party’s planned National Convention, the National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, stressed that the party had resolved to resist the design by all lawful means and conduct a peaceful electoral convention.
In a statement made available to journalists yesterday in Abuja, the party urged all loyal party faithful and the general public to gear up for the exercise, stressing that “the 2025 National Convention of the PDP has not been postponed, but will go on as scheduled on November 15 and 16, 2025, in Ibadan, Oyo State.”
Ologunagba, who is also the Secretary of the Publicity and Communication Sub-Committee of the National Convention Organising Committee (NCOC), stated that the National Working Committee (NWC) and NCOC were working diligently to organise a highly credible convention.
He, therefore, called on PDP members and all Nigerians to disregard misleading claims being peddled to the contrary by some individuals whom he alleged were recruited by the APC “in its failed attempt to stop the PDP National Convention.”
The Guardian reported that the Mohammed Abdulrahman faction of the party, reportedly backed by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, was making arrangements to hold a parallel convention, believing that the Ibadan convention would be overturned in court.
According to a member of the NWC, who requested anonymity, the Wike group believes that the Ibadan convention will end up as an exercise in futility, remarking that the two cases against the convention before Justice James Omotosho of the Abuja Federal High Court have already undermined the convention.
“Watch out for the real thing after the coming weekend. It is a fight to the finish. Wike knows how to do this kind of battle. You will be amazed by how things will turn from next week,” he stated.
SPEAKING with The Guardian yesterday, Toyese dismissed speculations that conflicting court judgements could stall the exercise, insisting that none of the rulings had the legal authority to stop the convention.
“It is true that we have several court judgements regarding the convention, but since they are conflicting rulings from the same court of coordinate jurisdiction, such judgements cannot be binding. On this note, the convention cannot be stopped,” he stated.
Disclosing that preparations were in top gear, with some delegates already in Ibadan and others still on their way, Toyese alleged that there were clandestine moves to weaken opposition parties, particularly the PDP, but maintained that the party was determined to forge ahead.
