Seyi Makinde Confident People’s Democratic Party Will Produce Nigeria’s Next President 👀🇳🇬
Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo State, stated on Monday that he is confident the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will produce Nigeria’s next president and that the party’s current assembly will produce leaders at all levels of government.
“This gathering will produce members of the House of Assembly, members of the House of Representatives, senators, governors, and the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Makinde stated. “We should write it down somewhere.”
His comments coincided with the PDP’s appointment of Kabiru Turaki as chairman of the party’s temporary National Working Committee (NWC) on Monday, with Governor Makinde’s support.
At the party’s 103rd National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja, Turaki was chosen to head the 13-member interim NWC.
Woyengikuro Daniel, Hamza Koshe, Ihediwa Nnabugwu, Isa Abubakar, Okechukwu Daniel, Theophilus Shan, Ini Ememobong, Aribisala Idowu, Bara’u Shafi’i, Ogbu Chinenyenwa, Umar Aji, and Taofeek Arapaja, who will act as secretary, are among the other committee members.
The PDP chairman in Edo State, Anthony Aziegbemi, made the motion to form the interim committee.
Adolphus Wabara, chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), declared on Thursday that the BoT had taken over the party’s leadership as instructed by the Supreme Court, sparking a leadership crisis within the party.
According to Wabara, the ruling was based on a Supreme Court of Nigeria decision that declared the PDP national convention, which took place on November 15 and 16, 2025, to be invalid.
Turaki became the national chairman of the party as a result of the invalidated convention.
Three of the five justices of the Supreme Court ruled in a split decision on April 30 that the Turaki-led group’s appeal to uphold the convention was without merit.
The majority ruling was read by Justice Stephen Adah, who concluded that the appellants had broken a Federal High Court order prohibiting them from holding the convention.
The Federal High Court in Abuja’s Peter Lifu issued a temporary order on November 11 prohibiting the party from holding the convention until the outcome of a substantive suit filed by Sule Lamido. This decision gave rise to the appeal, designated SC/CV/164/2026.
A final order prohibiting the PDP from holding its national convention was issued by Lifu on November 14.
According to the court’s ruling, Lamido was “unjustly denied” the chance to submit a nomination form to run for national chairman, which is against the PDP’s internal rules and constitution.
On March 9, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision.
