PDP vows to go ahead with saturday’s convention despite court order stopping it

By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

The Ambassador Ilya Damagum-led factional People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has vowed to go ahead with its planned elective national convention scheduled for November 15 and 16 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, notwithstanding court orders stopping it (the convention).
Two Federal High Courts sitting in Abuja, it will be recalled, had, in the last few days, barred the party from going ahead with the elective convention for failing to meet up with the necessary requirements.
But a High Court in Oyo State gave its nod for the convention to go ahead.
However, the party, in a statement on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon Debo Ologunagba declared that the PDP elective national convention has not been postponed as it will go on as scheduled on Saturday, 15th to Sunday, 16th November, 2025.
The party urged its members and Nigerians in general to disregard misleading claims being peddled to the contrary by some individuals who, it has been revealed, are recruited by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in its failed attempt to stop the PDP National Convention.
The statement by Ologunagba reads, “The National Working Committee (NWC) and the 2025 National Convention Organizing Committee (NCOC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) inform all party members and the general public that the 2025 National Convention of the PDP has not been postponed but will go on as scheduled on Saturday, 15th to Sunday, 16th November, 2025 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
“The NWC and the NCOC urge Party members and Nigerians in general to disregard misleading claims being peddled to the contrary by some individuals who, it has been revealed, are recruited by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in its failed attempt to stop the PDP National Convention.
“We are aware of the plots by the APC to destabilize the opposition and impose a one-party state in the country; a design that will be lawfully resisted.
“The NCOC and the Party will continue to work assiduously round the clock to ensure a successful National Convention in Ibadan as scheduled.
“While thanking Nigerians for their overwhelming support for our Party, the NCOC welcomes all delegates, Party leaders, officials and all supporters of the PDP who have already started arriving Ibadan for the National Convention”, the statement concluded.