Three chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Austin Nwachukwu, Amah Abraham Nnanna, and Mr Turnah Alabh George, have petitioned the National Judicial Council, NJC, soliciting for a right away investigation and disciplinary motion in opposition to Justice A.L. Akintola of the Oyo State High Court for alleged abuse of judicial procedure.

The trio are plaintiffs within the Abuja Federal High Court Suit Number FHC/ABJ/CS/2120/2025, the judgment of which stopped the deliberate National Elective Convention of the PDP scheduled for November 15 and 16 2025 in Ibadan, Oyo State.

The petition is titled: “Petition against Honourable Justice A.L. Akintola of the High Court of Oyo State for His Lordship’s Judicial Act of Recklessness, Impunity and Flagrant Violation of the Known and Very Well Established Due Process of Law.”

It reads partially: “This Petition is in opposition to Justice A.L. Akintola of the High Court of Oyo State which, in our opinion, quantities to an act of judicial indiscretion and abuse of place of business.

“The mentioned Judge went forward to factor an Ex-Parte Injunction mandating the Peoples Democratic Party to continue with its Convention previous slated for fifteenth and sixteenth November 2025, in spite of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja having delivered a judgment forbidding the maintaining of the mentioned Convention in Suit Number FHC/ABJ/CS/2120/2025 Between Hon Austin Nwachukwu & 2 Others and INEC & 8 Others.

“The injunction issued via Justice Akintola quantities to sitting on attraction in opposition to the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja within the above-mentioned swimsuit. A replica of the Federal High Court judgment, with particular consideration to pages 88–93 the place the Court particularly dominated and ordered as consistent with Reliefs Number 3–10 that the PDP isn’t entitled to convene or habits its nationwide conference scheduled for fifteenth and sixteenth November 2025, is hereby hooked up.

“For context, we had been the plaintiffs within the mentioned swimsuit, which culminated in a judgment delivered in our favour on thirty first October 2025. The judgment forbade and restrained the Peoples Democratic Party from continuing with its deliberate National Convention because of the PDP’s failure to fulfil sure necessary necessities, that have been stipulations precedent to the maintaining of the conference.

“Your Lordship, the collection of Ibadan, Oyo State, and specifically Justice A.L. Akintola’s court docket for the listening to of a recent swimsuit and the grant of an Ex-Parte Injunction in opposition to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the Peoples Democratic Party, and its National Officers whose headquarters are in Abuja raises severe suspicions and requires deep scrutiny. It is noteworthy that Justice A.L. Akintola was once additionally selected to move the Local Government Elections Tribunal to listen to petitions coming up from the Local Government Elections carried out via Governor Makinde’s supervision in Oyo State.

“Even a non-lawyer is aware of {that a} State High Court lacks the authority to serve as as an appellate court docket over a call of the Federal High Court. Therefore, the Ex-Parte Order made via Justice Akintola, in spite of the conclusive decision of a identical swimsuit on the Federal High Court, undermines and casts aspersions at the judicial reforms being championed via the Chief Justice of Nigeria. By issuing this Ex-Parte Order, Justice Akintola successfully appointed himself into an appellate function and sat on attraction over the Federal High Court’s judgment, various it with out right kind authority.

“His Lordship can’t feign lack of awareness of the Federal High Court judgment at the similar subject, as Justice Omotosho’s judgment was once broadly televised on nationwide media shops similar to NTA, TVC, Arise News, Channels Television, and reported in nationwide newspapers together with Daily Trust and The Nation, in addition to different on-line platforms.

“In light of the foregoing, we hereby appeal to Your Lordship to investigate the circumstances leading to the unwarranted grant of an Ex-Parte Order by Justice A.L. Akintola of the High Court of Oyo State and ensure that the learned judge faces disciplinary action if found wanting. This will help to sanitise the judicial space and discourage judges from compromising the ethos upon which judicial authority rests.”

An affidavit deposed to via one of the most petitioners, Nnanna, said: “I’m the PDP Chairman of Abia State, via distinctive feature of which I’m neatly conversant with this situation.

“I’m one of the most plaintiffs in Suit No. FHC/CS/2120/2025, wherein Hon. Justice J.Okay. Omotosho delivered judgment on thirty first October 2025 in opposition to INEC, PDP, and the National Executives of PDP, sued as third to ninth defendants.

“I do know from the qualified true replica of the judgment that INEC and PDP had been obviously directed to not continue with the PDP National Convention slated for fifteenth and sixteenth November 2025 till sure stipulations had been met.

“I do know as a proven fact that not one of the defendants have appealed in opposition to the judgment delivered on thirty first October 2025.

“To our dismay, as plaintiffs within the mentioned judgment, Hon. A.L. Akintola of the High Court of Oyo State constituted himself because the Court of Appeal of Nigeria and put aside the judgment of the Federal High Court on third November 2025.

“I hereby verify that the entire facts stated in our petition are a truthful account of the circumstances surrounding the Federal High Court judgment and the Ex-Parte Order delivered by Hon. Justice A.L. Akintola, which effectively set aside the order of the Federal High Court.”