2027: Nigerians still believe in PDP – Wabara declares as BoT takes over party

The Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party has formally assumed power of the party’s affairs pursuing a Supreme Court judgement that nullified its National Working Committee.

BoT Chairman, Adolphus Wabara, made this known connected Sunday, May 3, 2026, astatine the opening of the party’s 84th BoT meeting, saying the determination was indispensable to forestall a vacuum aft the tribunal decision.

The improvement comes connected the heels of the April 30 ruling by the Supreme Court of Nigeria, which voided the 2025 nationalist normal that produced the party’s National Working Committee led by Kabiru Turaki.

According to Wabara, the BoT stepped successful instantly successful enactment with the party’s constitution to stabilise its structure.

“Our contiguous involution averted a enactment vacuum successful the aftermath of the judgment,” helium said.

He noted that the ruling besides upheld the suspension of cardinal organisers of the disputed normal held successful Abuja, efficaciously invalidating the workout and its outcome.

Despite the setback, Wabara said the enactment remains assured of overcoming its interior challenges up of the 2027 wide elections.

He disclosed that the PDP has continued to person enactment from members and stakeholders crossed the country, describing it arsenic a motion of sustained nationalist assurance successful the party.

“These messages fortify our resoluteness to flooded the hurdl...