{"id":81669,"date":"2026-01-15T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81669"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:16:02","slug":"court-fixes-jan-23-to-hear-turaki-led-pdps-stay-application-in-wike-camp-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/15\/court-fixes-jan-23-to-hear-turaki-led-pdps-stay-application-in-wike-camp-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Fixes Jan 23 to Hear Turaki-led PDP\u2019s Stay Application in Wike Camp Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed January 23, 2026, to hear an application for stay of proceedings filed by the Kabiru Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a suit instituted by a rival group aligned with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.<br \/>\nJustice Joyce Abdulmalik adjourned the matter to allow counsel to the plaintiffs, Dr. Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), respond to the application.<br \/>\nThe suit, marked FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/2501\/2025, was filed by the Wike-aligned faction, including acting National Chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman, and Senator Samuel Anyanwu, who is claiming the position of National Secretary. The plaintiffs are seeking to restrain the Turaki-led leadership from parading themselves as PDP officials and to bar security agencies from granting them access to the party\u2019s national secretariat at Wadata Plaza, Abuja.<br \/>\nThey also asked the court to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising any address submitted by the Turaki-led faction as the PDP\u2019s official address and urged the court to direct INEC and security agencies to enforce earlier court judgments on the matter.<br \/>\nJustice Abdulmalik had earlier ordered parties to maintain the status quo pending the determination of the suit. The Turaki-led faction, dissatisfied with the ruling, has approached the Court of Appeal and also filed motions seeking a stay of proceedings and the judge\u2019s recusal over alleged bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed January 23, 2026, to hear an application for stay of proceedings filed by the Kabiru Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in a suit instituted by a rival group aligned with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. Justice Joyce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81682,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81669\/revisions\/81682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}