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The Kabiru Turaki (SAN)-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking an order compelling the Inspector-General of Police and the Nigeria Police Force to unseal and vacate the party’s national secretariat and other offices nationwide.
The request is contained in a motion on notice filed by the plaintiffs through their lead counsel, Chief Chris Uche (SAN), asking the court to grant a mandatory injunction directing the police to remove barricades and withdraw from the PDP headquarters.
The party’s national secretariat was sealed in November following clashes between two rival factions of the PDP, one led by Turaki and the other aligned with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, after both groups scheduled meetings at the same venue.
Police intervention followed the confrontation, during which tear gas was fired, after which the premises were locked and barricaded, preventing the Turaki-led National Working Committee from holding its postponed inaugural meeting.
Turaki emerged as national chairman at a PDP convention held in Ibadan, Oyo State, in November, a development rejected by the Wike-aligned faction, which argued that the exercise violated subsisting court orders restraining the party from holding the convention.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/252/2025, filed by the PDP alongside Turaki and the Chairman of its Board of Trustees, Senator Adolphus Wabara, the plaintiffs are seeking an order restraining the police from invading, sealing or restricting access to the party’s offices across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Specifically, the plaintiffs prayed the court for “an order of mandatory injunction directing the defendants to immediately remove all barricades, unseal and vacate forthwith from the 1st plaintiff’s national secretariat at Wadata Plaza, Plot 1970 Michael Okpara Way, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, including its annex, ‘Legacy House’, at Plot 2774 Shehu Shagari Way, Maitama, Abuja, pending the determination of this suit.”
In an affidavit deposed to by the PDP national secretary, Taofik Arapaja, the party alleged that the police sealed the secretariat without a valid court order, disrupted its operations and acted in a partisan manner, urging the court to grant the application in the interest of justice.