ADC chairmen ask INEC to take away David Mark, threaten nationwide protest

The National Executive Committee Chairmen Forum of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has requested the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to take away Senator David Mark and members of his dissolved Interim National Working Committee from its portal.

The discussion board threatened to organise a nationwide protest if the fee didn’t implement a courtroom judgement on the get together’s management dispute.

It additionally referred to as on INEC to exchange their names with these of Nafiu Bala Gombe and different officers it considers the get together’s legally recognised leaders.

The group additional requested the fee to reopen its portal to allow the ADC to conduct recent primaries the place essential and submit its candidates for the 2027 normal elections.

The discussion board’s secretary, Kennedy Odion, made the calls for whereas talking to journalists in Abuja on Friday, a day after Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja nullified the Mark-led interim management of the get together.

Odion stated the judgement invalidated selections taken by the dissolved management, together with the nomination of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar because the get together’s presidential candidate and the emergence of different candidates by congresses and the nationwide conference organised by the interim management.

He stated the ruling supported the discussion board’s place that the interim management was not recognised by the get together’s structure.

“We, the only legally recognised NEC members, accept in its entirety the judgement declaring our own Alhaji Nafiu Bala Gombe the authentic national chairman of the ADC.

“Failure to comply with this latest judgement will leave us no option but to proceed with our planned nationwide protest against the electoral umpire. Nigeria is for all of us. No individual, however highly placed, is above the law,” he stated.

Odion additionally maintained that the judgement affected the candidatures of Atiku, his operating mate and former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, in addition to different politicians who emerged by processes organised by the interim management.