As Court adjourns hearing on motion on notice till November 10. An Oyo State High Court 5 sitting in Ibadan, presided over by Justice Ladiran Akintola has directed the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to go ahead with the party’s national convention scheduled for November 15-16, 2025, in Ibadan. The court granted the order after an ex parte application filed by PDP chieftain Folahan Malomo Adelabi who sued as the claimant/applicant in suit number I/1336/2025. Adelabi’s application sought to ensure the party adheres to its guidelines, timetable, and schedule of activities for the convention.
The PDP, its Acting National Chairman, Ambassador Umar Iliya Damagum (for himself and members of the party’s National Working Committee and National Executive Committee), the Governor of Adamawa State, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri (for himself and members of the National Convention Organizing Committee), and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are the defendants in the case.
Adelabi asked the court for an interim injunction to restrain the defendants from “truncating, frustrating, the Guidelines, Timetable and Schedule of Activity and/or disrupting, preventing and or stopping the conduct of the Scheduled National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fixed for the 15th and 16th November, 2025 at Ibadan to elect officers of the said party at national pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice”. The applicant also sought an order directing PDP, Damagum, Fintiri to “adhere to and honour the provisions of the aforesaid Guidelines, timetable and Schedule of Activities for the conduct of the National Convention pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice”.
The court also directed the PDP leadership to adhere strictly to the guidelines, timetable, and schedule of activities earlier released for the convention. Furthermore, the court ordered the party and its relevant committees to hold, conduct, and convene the elective national convention as planned in Ibadan, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice. The judge also directed INEC
