PDP crisis: Turaki, Wike’s groups in another face-off over state congresses, excos

Wike’s group ratifies dissolution of Lagos, Bauchi, Oyo, Delta excos, 10 others

Fixes state congresses for January 9

They are acting like dying horses, Turaki’s camp

THE Mohammed Abdulrahman-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday fixed January 9, 2026, as the commencement date for the party’s congresses across states in the country.

The disclosure was made in Abuja after a meeting of the National Caretaker Committee chaired by Abdulrahman.

The committee said that after the state congresses, plans leading to the party’s national convention would be unveiled.

The National Publicity Secretary of the camp, Haruna Junguda Mohammed, who read the communiqué of the meeting at a news conference, also said the PDP had ratified the dissolution of state working committees in 14 states.

The affected states are Borno, Bauchi, Oyo, Zamfara, Yobe, Ekiti, Bayelsa, Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, Delta, Taraba, Kano and Lagos.

According to him, caretaker committees will be constituted to oversee the affairs of the party in those states pending the outcome of the upcoming congresses.

The camp, which is backed by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Mr Nyesom Wike, held the meeting barely 24 hours after the Tanimu Turaki-led National Working Committee (NWC) concluded its consultations with PDP stakeholders as part of efforts to reposition the party ahead of the 2027 polls.

The Turaki leadership, which emerged from the November 15 Ibadan convention, had met with former governors, ex-ministers, state chairmen, former NWC members and National Assembly caucuses to discuss the future of the party.

But on Thursday, the Wike camp warned the Turaki-led NWC to stop parading itself as leading the PDP.

The communiqué partly read: “The National Caretaker Committee resolved to tell the teeming members of our party and the general public that PDP remains strong and indivisible.

“There is only one genuine and legitimate PDP, headed by Honorable Abdulrahman Mohammed.

“The National Caretaker Committee therefore warns anybody putting the image of the party to disrepute to refrain from that forthwith.

“It is important to let the public know that the claims making the rounds in the media that the Turaki-led exco has been accepted by INEC are false.

“We therefore challenge Turaki to produce the code with which he uploaded his exco to the INEC portal!”

The camp expanded the membership of the caretaker committee.

The new appointments are Professor Adenike Ogunse (Women Leader); Engineer Deji Dohati (Deputy National Secretary); Senator Olaka Ogunwu (Treasurer); Honorable Jungu Haruna Mohammed (National Publicity Secretary); and Ambassador Ibrahim Bala-Aboki (Youth Leader).

However, in a swift reaction, the Turaki-led NWC described the faction as a “dying horse” desperate to hold on to anything it could get.

The National Publicity Secretary of the Turaki-led group of PDP, Comrade Ini Ememobong, said that rather than “seeking ways to destroy the PDP,” the Abdulrahman-led camp should strive to function as the opposition party that it should be.

“Their position is like the last kick of a dying horse. Our challenge to them is that they should summon the courage to function as an opposition party.

“They should be asking the APC-led Federal Government to deliver good governance to Nigerians. That is the work of the opposition,” Ememobong added.