A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Oba Maduabuchi, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, cannot progress without a Supreme Court judgment.
Maduabuchi made this statement on Monday while fielding questions in an interview on Arise Television.
He said that the Court of Appeal backed the expulsion of members of the Pro-Wike faction.
The senior lawyer noted that, in spite of that, the same people were elected as members of the National Working Committee during the recently concluded national convention of the PDP.
According to him, the ruling of Justice James Omotoso of the Federal High Court is contradictory, noting that, “You can’t say the Pro-Wike faction was rightly expelled from the party and then affirm Abdulrahman Mohammed-led administration as authentic.
“For us to appreciate how bad things have gotten, we have to go back to the beginning. Iyorchia Ayu was the national chairman of the PDP, and everybody accepted it.
“He was removed, and Umar Damagum stepped into his shoes. Damagum was having his problems, but whatever it was, he lasted till December 2025 when his tenure ended.
“That’s where we started having problems. There’s this Mohammed Abdulrahman who suddenly became chairman or acting chairman of the caretaker committee. I, for one, did not know how he came up.
“And Damagum NWC informed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that they were going to hold a meeting with respect to having their convention and all that, which INEC accepted. They were given 21 days.
The meeting was held, and in the meeting, certain people were dismissed or expelled from the party. In fact, without a Supreme Court judgment, PDP cannot progress,” he stated.
Internal crisis: PDP cannot progress without Supreme Court judgment – Lawyer Maduabuchi
