The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced plans to take legal action against Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and other prominent figures who recently defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Following a six-hour closed-door meeting held at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday, the PDP leadership directed its National Legal Adviser to begin legal proceedings aimed at reclaiming what it described as the party’s stolen mandate in Delta State. WAFFI TV recalls that the emergency meeting of the NWC was convened at the party’s headquarters in Abuja. In a communiqué issued afterward, the PDP instructed its legal team to initiate the process of challenging the defections in court. In a move to restore party stability in the state, the PDP also appointed its South-South Zonal Chairman, Emma Ogidi, to oversee the party’s affairs in Delta and lead the reorganisation process. According to the Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, “We have also instructed the national legal adviser to recover our mandate that they have taken away. The fortune of this party cannot be just left in the hands of our adversaries, so you (the national legal adviser) will take legal action to retrieve those mandates. “We’ve just instructed the zonal caretaker committee to oversee the party in Delta after dissolving all the structures that have already been there, since the majority of them have shifted.” In addition to addressing the recent wave of defections, the National Working Committee (NWC) also approved several major recommendations put forward by the PDP Governors’ Forum. The committee set May 28 as the date for the party’s next National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting and scheduled the PDP National Convention to take place from August 28 to 30, 2025.