June 8, 2026
The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party, led by Adolphus Wabara, has instituted a suit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), seeking recognition of the party’s interim National Working Committee (NWC).
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1159/2026 and filed on June 4 at the Federal High Court, Abuja, the plaintiffs are asking the court to compel INEC to update its records and publish on its official website the names of the interim NWC members forwarded to the commission by the PDP’s BoT and National Executive Committee (NEC).
The plaintiffs include Wabara, former Niger State Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu, former Information Minister Jerry Gana, PDP chieftain Olabode George, former ministers Maryam Ciroma and Zainab Maina, as well as BoT member Esther Uduehi. INEC is the sole defendant in the suit.
The legal action comes days after the Court of Appeal set aside key aspects of a Federal High Court judgment delivered in Ibadan that had recognised a factional caretaker committee within the PDP.
