A fresh round of internal power tussle has emerged within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the faction led by the acting national chairman, Abdulrahman Mohammed, on Friday inaugurated a new Board of Trustees (BoT), intensifying the party’s leadership crisis.
At an event held at the official residence of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, in Abuja, Abdulrahman announced Senator Mao Ohabunwa as the new BoT chairman and Isah Dansidi as secretary. The move marks a direct challenge to the authority of the existing BoT headed by Senator Adolphus Wabara.
Abdulrahman, while speaking at the ceremony, claimed the faction was taking steps to “restore the moral compass of the party,” accusing the Wabara-led board of losing credibility. He linked the party’s decline to long-standing internal disputes and decisions that, according to him, strayed from the PDP’s founding principles.
He alleged that abandoning the party’s zoning arrangement before the 2015 election triggered years of internal decay, weakening the PDP and fueling factional ambitions. “The consequences of those decisions still haunt us today,” he said.
The inauguration comes shortly after Wabara’s suspension by the Abia State chapter of the PDP — a disciplinary action Abdulrahman described as “difficult but necessary.”
Abdulrahman vowed that his leadership would operate with strict adherence to the party’s constitution, court rulings, and transparent internal elections, promising to “liberate the PDP from impunity and manipulation.”
However, the development further widens the rift within the party, signaling that the struggle over legitimacy and control of the PDP’s national leadership structure is far from over.
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