SDP Expels Adewale, Agunloye, Ayienigba, Others, Elects New NWC

Picks Abimbola Atanda as presidential candidate

Oghenevwede Ohwovoriole in Abuja

The Social Democratic Party SDP at its 2026 national convention in Abuja on Wednesday expelled the likes of Adewale Adebayo, Olu Agunloye, Rufus Ayienigba and others.

The party also elected a new National Working Committee (NWC), with Shehu Gabam as the national chairman and the party through voice vote picked Abimbola Atanda as their presidential candidate for the 2027 presidential election,

The convention is coming after the Adebayo Adewale faction had a convention in Bauchi and the court later reinstated the Shehu Gabam led NWC as the authentic leadership of the party and it was confirmed by the INEC who observed the convention where he was reelected and the expulsion of Adebayo Adewale and others was ratified by the convention.