PDP Leaders Hold Closed-Door Meeting with Obasanjo in Abeokuta

• A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership, led by Alhaji Taminu Turaki, has met privately with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his residence in Abeokuta amid the party’s deepening internal crisis.

A faction of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by its chairman, Alhaji Taminu Turaki, is currently holding a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Turaki, accompanied by former governors of Niger and Plateau states, Alhaji Muazu Babangida and Senator Jonah Jang, as well as other senior party leaders, arrived at Obasanjo’s residence within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, at about 11:38 am on Saturday.

The PDP leaders subsequently met privately with the former president, with details of the discussions yet to be made public.

The meeting comes against the backdrop of the party’s long-running internal crisis and a growing wave of defections to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

It would be recalled that ahead of the 2023 PDP presidential primaries, Obasanjo held a closed-door meeting with three PDP governors in May 2022 in Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Those in attendance included Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, and former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke.

Earlier in January of the same year, Obasanjo had told PDP leaders that he would not return to the party when a delegation led by the then National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, alongside four former governors and members of the party’s National Working Committee, visited him at his Abeokuta residence.

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The PDP has continued to battle internal divisions, compounded by high-profile defections. Recently, Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, dumped the PDP for the APC, citing the party’s failure to protect him.

Similarly, Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, resigned from the PDP and recently picked up the membership card and governorship ticket of the Accord Party ahead of the August 2026 gubernatorial election in the state.