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The internal crisis inside the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has worsened, with the Kabiru Turaki (SAN)-led faction preparing to sue over the party’s continuing sealing of its national secretariat in Abuja.

In a complaint filed in the Federal High Court, Abuja, the group seeks an injunction ordering the Inspector-General of Police and the Nigeria Police Force to immediately unseal and vacate the PDP national headquarters, as well as all other party offices around the country.

According to court papers, the plaintiffs’ principal lawyer, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), filed a Motion on Notice that included the request.

The application requested that the court issue a mandatory injunction requiring the police to dismantle all barricades and withdraw from the party’s headquarters without delay.

The PDP national secretariat was shut in November after violent battles between two opposing sections of the party, one led by Turaki and the other allied with Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.

Tensions rose after both factions scheduled meetings at the headquarters on the same day, necessitating police intervention.

Tear gas was reportedly used before the premises were closed and barricaded with barbed wire.

Due to the shutdown, the Turaki-led National Working Committee was unable to hold its postponed first meeting at the secretariat.

Turaki was elected national chairman at the party’s convention in Ibadan, Oyo State, in November.

However, the Wike-aligned faction opposed the convention, claiming that it violated current court orders prohibiting the PDP from holding the exercise.

Justices James Omotosho and Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja granted orders preventing the PDP from holding its scheduled convention on November 15 and 16, 2025.

Despite this, a High Court in Ibadan issued an ex-parte ruling permitting the party to proceed.

At the Ibadan convention, the party expelled Wike, its struggling national secretary Samuel Anyanwu, factional chairman Mohammed Abdulrahman, and eight others for alleged anti-party conduct.

In the new complaint, FHC/ABJ/CS/252/2025, the PDP, along with Turaki and the chairman of its Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, urged the court to prevent the police from further interfering in the party’s activities.

The Inspector-General of Police and the Nigeria Police Force are both named as defendants.

The plaintiffs explicitly requested that the police immediately remove all barricades, unseal, and leave the PDP national secretariat at Wadata Plaza, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, and its extension, Legacy House in Maitama, pending the outcome of the lawsuit.

They also demanded an order prohibiting the police from shutting, occupying, or restricting access to any PDP office nationally while the matter is pending.

The plaintiffs said that the police acted without lawful power when they shut and occupied the party’s offices on November 18, 2025, and have stayed there since.

They asserted that Turaki and Wabara are the primary officers in charge of the party’s administration and management.

The PDP national secretary, Taofik Arapaja, swore an affidavit in favor of the motion, stating that the party had its elective national convention in Ibadan on November 15 and 16, 2025, at which new executives, including Turaki as national chairman, were chosen.

He also stated that the Independent National Electoral Commission was properly notified of the results on November 17, 2025.

Arapaja added that the party simply informed security authorities, such as the police and the Department of State Services, about an emergency stakeholders’ meeting slated for November 18, 2025, and asked security coverage.

Instead, he claimed that a huge group of police officers commanded by the FCT Commissioner of Police rushed the secretariat, shot over 200 tear gas canisters, and locked the premises.

He further stated that party officials, personnel, and visiting governors, including those from Bauchi and Oyo states, were denied admission to the building.

According to the document, the police activity was taken without a valid court order and constituted an unlawful takeover of PDP property.

The party said that the secretariat’s protracted shutdown had significantly affected its operations, including administrative coordination, policy formulation, membership management, and election preparations.

The plaintiffs further maintained that the police, as an institution formed by the Nigeria Police Act 2020, must not be politicized.

They urged the court to allow the motion, noting that the balance of convenience favors the PDP and that monetary compensation would not fully compensate for the loss if the reliefs were denied.

They argued that granting the application would serve the interests of justice and erase any notion that the court was approving the police action. The court approves the action.

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