PDP Faction Accuses Wike Of Acting In Contempt Of Court

The Kabiru Turaki-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faction has accused the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, of deepening illegality and weaponising absurdity in the troubled opposing party.

The faction was reacting to the moves by Wike and his faction to set up a caretaker committee to run the affairs of the party pending the resolution of the leadership crisis plaguing the PDP.

The faction, in a statement on Monday by its spokesman, Ini Ememobong, said the Minister’s attempts were clearly designed to coordinate personal political affairs.

Ememobong said the Minister’s “antics” would have passed unnoticed, “just like the drab audience of their sympathy party,” if they had not attempted to falsely cloak it in the name of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The spokesman reminded the Minister and members of his group that they have been duly expelled by the PDP and that the party had issued them with certificates of expulsion, which he said served as a disclaimer.

“The activity they claim to have undertaken is one they clearly lack the authority to carry out, even if they were still members of the party. For the avoidance of doubt, all organs of our party, particularly the National Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees, remain intact and under the legitimate leadership of Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN.

“These organs are led by dignified individuals, who cannot be procured or commodified in the manner that has become the signature modus operandi of this group of former members.

“It is important to remind the public that Minister Wike, acting through his agents Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman and Senator Samuel Anyanwu, filed a suit on 21st November 2025 at the Federal High Court, Abuja, before Honourable Justice J.O. Abdulmalik, seeking among other things, the nullification and non-recognition of the PDP Convention and its outcomes.

“Their application for an interim injunction was refused, while all parties were cautioned against taking actions that could render the court’s eventual judgment nugatory,” the faction said.

It added that by proceeding to announce a “fictitious National Caretaker Committee”, Wike and his group have acted in clear contempt of the court and have fundamentally altered the status of the two plaintiffs in that suit.

Continuing, the faction said, “This latest drama represents nothing but a further deepening of the trenches of illegality they have been digging since 2023 in their bid to politically incapacitate the PDP and obstruct its role as the main opposition party in Nigeria. Their absurdity has now graduated into a full-fledged tool in the ruling party’s playbook, weaponised by this Wike-led band of APC apologists.

“The public is already familiar with the comical spectacle that this group has become, with each new action overshadowing the last in sheer ridiculousness.”

The faction reassured its members and the public that the PDP remains firmly on a path of rebirth, anchored on transparency, equity, honesty, and inclusiveness.

Recall that Wike had, in reaction to his expulsion and that of his group, issued counter expulsion orders against the Turaki-led NWC and four serving PDP governors.

Others so expelled by Wike included the chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Adolphus Wabara and other prominent chieftains that identified with the November 15-16 PDP National Convention.