The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recognised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) led by Abdulrahman Mohammed.
Mohammed’s faction of the opposition party is backed by Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Checks on INEC’s website on Monday listed Mohammed as the PDP National Chairman.
Other members of the NWC recognised include the party’s National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu; National Treasurer, Ahmed Mohammed; National Financial Secretary, Daniel Woyengikuro; and the National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Adeyemi Ajibade, SAN.
This comes a day after the PDP held a national convention at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
At the event, Mohammed and other members of the NWC were elected by the over 2,000 delegates drawn from the 36 states that participated in the exercise.
In attendance were ex-Senate President, Bukola Saraki; former governors Ayodele Fayose (Ekiti), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Samuel Ortom (Benue), among others.
The PDP has been entangled in an internal crisis that led to the emergence of two factions.
While the Tanimu Turaki faction, backed by the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, claims leadership on one side, the group backed by the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, controls the other faction.
The convention held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, in November 2025, snowballed into a series of legal battles.
But on March 9, the Court of Appeal in Abuja affirmed the judgment of a Federal High Court, which restrained the PDP from conducting the Ibadan convention.
Delivering judgment on March 23, a three-member panel of the appellate court dismissed an appeal filed by the PDP challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Abuja to entertain the suit.
Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam, who delivered the judgment, held that the PDP violated constitutional provisions guiding the conduct of its convention.
But the Turaki group headed to the Supreme Court to challenge the judgment.
