Nigeria, April 30 -- The Supreme Court has laid to rest the leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), invalidating the party's convention held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, in November last year, and the emergence of Kabir Turaki as a rival national chairperson of the party alongside other members.

A five-member panel of the Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeal's decision in a 3-2 spit judgement.

The judgement effectively ends the challenge to the faction of the party aligned with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.

The Wike group held its convention in March, re-electing Abdulrahman Mohammed, and other members of the National Working Committee (NWC).

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