The Kabiru Turaki- led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that the action of constituting a National Caretaker Committee announced by a chieftain of the opposition party and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, purportedly for the PDP, amounts to a contempt of court.
A statement by its factional National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, disclosed that Justice J.O. Abdulmalik of Abuja High Court, did not only refuse to grant an interim injunction sought by Wike’s agents, Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman and Senator Samuel Anyanwu seeking the nullification and non-recognition of the PDP National convention and its outcomes, but cautioned against taking actions that could render the Court’s eventual judgement of no value.
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The Turaki-led faction stated that by proceeding to announce a fictitious National Caretaker Committee, the Wike-led faction has acted in contempt of the court and have fundamentally altered the status of the two plaintiffs in the suit.
The Kabiru Turaki group of the PDP describes what it calls a fictitious Caretaker Committee as drama, which it claims, will further deepen the illegality that the Wike-led group had been digging since 2023 in a bid to politically incapacitate the PDP and obstruct its role as the main opposition party in Nigeria.
The Press statement by the Turaki-led faction reassured PDP members and Nigerians that the Party remains firmly on a path of rebirth, anchored on transparency, equity, honesty, and inclusiveness.
(Editor: Ken Eseni)
