PDP rejects claims of leadership vacuum, blames crisis on misinterpreted Supreme Court ruling
The National Vice Chairman (South East) of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peoples Democratic Party, Ray Nnaji, has said the crisis in the party resulted from the misinterpretation of Supreme Court rulings.
Nnaji stated this while addressing journalists over the weekend amid rising internal tensions within the party.
According to him, the PDP structure remains intact and fully functional, with no leadership vacuum as being speculated in some quarters.
“There is no leadership vacuum. We are in charge, we are in possession of our national secretariat, and the party structure is intact,” he said.
His remarks came after comments by former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, who suggested that the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) had assumed leadership following a Supreme Court judgment on the disputed Ibadan national convention.
Wabara had argued that the BoT, as the party’s second-highest organ, was constitutionally positioned to take temporary control after the apex court invalidated rival factions that emerged from the convention.
However, Nnaji rejected that interpretation, insisting it does not reflect the actual position of the judgment.
