{"id":2562,"date":"2026-06-30T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:06:09","slug":"court-fixes-july-7-for-hearing-in-factional-pdp-suit-against-inec-over-interim-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/2026\/06\/30\/court-fixes-july-7-for-hearing-in-factional-pdp-suit-against-inec-over-interim-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Fixes July 7 for Hearing in Factional PDP Suit Against INEC Over Interim Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2563\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/FB_IMG_1782849672056-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/FB_IMG_1782849672056-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/FB_IMG_1782849672056.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nA Federal High Court in Abuja has scheduled July 7, 2026, to hear the substantive suit filed by the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seeking an order compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise the party&#8217;s Kabir Turaki-led interim National Working Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Salim Ibrahim fixed the date on Tuesday after parties agreed to exchange all outstanding court processes before the next hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The court directed all parties to file and serve their documents on or before July 6, warning that no further adjournments would be granted.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP BoT is asking the court to direct INEC to update the party&#8217;s official records to reflect the interim leadership ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>According to the plaintiffs, INEC is obligated to comply with existing court judgments, which they claim nullified the PDP&#8217;s 2025 national convention and affirmed the suspension of some party officials.<\/p>\n<p>In may,4, 2026, the supreme Court invalidate the executive of the Factional PPD which led to the formation of the PDP Interim National Working Committee (INWC):<br \/>\nKabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN \u2013 Chairman<br \/>\nArapaja Taofeek Gbola-Oladejo \u2013 Secretary<br \/>\nAlh. Hamza Akuyam Koshe \u2013 Member<br \/>\nDr. Daniel Ambrose Woyengikuro \u2013 Member<br \/>\nIhediwa Richard Nnabugwu \u2013 Member<br \/>\nIsa Abubakar \u2013 Member<br \/>\nOkechukwu Obiechina Daniel \u2013 Member<br \/>\nHon. Theophilus Dakas Shan \u2013 Member<br \/>\nComrade Ini Ememobong, mnipr \u2013 Member<br \/>\nAribisala Adewale Idowu \u2013 Member<br \/>\nBara&#8217;u Shafi&#8217;i \u2013 Member<br \/>\nOgbu Anthonia Chinenyenwa \u2013 Member<br \/>\nHon. Umar Dan Aji \u2013 Member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}