The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that its 2025 National Convention will hold in Ibadan this weekend as scheduled, defying a Federal High Court order stopping the exercise.
The announcement came on Wednesday through a statement issued by the PDP National Publicity Secretary and Secretary, Publicity and Communication Sub-Committee of the National Convention Organising Committee (NCOC), Hon. Debo Ologunagba, who confirmed that the event would proceed from Saturday, November 15, to Sunday, November 16, 2025.
Ologunagba urged Nigerians and party members to disregard “false and misleading claims” suggesting that the convention had been postponed, accusing the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of sponsoring misinformation to destabilise the opposition.
“We are aware of the plots by the APC to destabilise the opposition and impose a one-party state in the country, a design that will be lawfully resisted,” Ologunagba said.
He assured that preparations were in full swing for a successful convention, with delegates and party leaders already arriving in Ibadan. “The NCOC welcomes all delegates, party leaders, officials and supporters of the PDP who have already started arriving Ibadan for the National Convention,” he added.
Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has reignited debate over the state of the PDP, declaring that the opposition party is “decaying from the head.”
Speaking during a television interview, Fayose stated that the party’s lingering crises were rooted in leadership failures and a lack of internal reform.
“When fish decays from the body, you can salvage it, but when it decays from the head, you cannot salvage it. Currently, the PDP has decayed from the head,” he said.
Fayose, who maintained he would never leave the party, however admitted that the PDP was “in trouble.” He noted that his earlier warnings about imminent defections among PDP governors had already begun to manifest.
“After my visit here three weeks ago, Governor Diri left. The Governor of Enugu left. And the third one is the Governor of Taraba, who was handed over by the President to the national chairman of the APC,” he said.
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The former governor predicted that more defections were imminent. “Another one will leave very soon. Governor of Plateau will leave. And after him, another governor will leave again,” he added.
Also speaking on the same programme, former PDP National Vice Chairman, Dr. Eddy Olafeso, condemned the court order restraining the party from holding its convention, describing it as “the climax of judicial rascality.”
Olafeso accused those behind the litigation of acting in concert with the APC to weaken Nigeria’s democracy and push the country toward a one-party system. “A group is focused on ensuring that they destroy the party completely, but we will not allow it. Good will prevail over evil,” he said.
He expressed confidence that the Ibadan convention would proceed successfully despite attempts to frustrate it. “We will not allow this. I’m energised, like many of our colleagues, that this shall not stand. The truth and justice must prevail,” Olafeso insisted.
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