ADC zonal leaders to Atiku: Stop parading your self as our social gathering’s presidential candidate

The Six Zonal Leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has warned former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar in opposition to parading himself because the social gathering’s presidential candidate, citing a subsisting judgment of the Federal High Court invalidating the management that purportedly produced him.

The warning adopted resolutions adopted at a gathering of the social gathering’s six zonal leaders, the place they unanimously handed a vote of confidence in Hon. Nafiu Bala Gombe because the genuine and subsisting management of the social gathering.

In a communiqué signed by Dr Christopher O. Okechukwu, Director of Media and Public Affairs, on behalf of the Six Zonal Leadership of the ADC, the group urged Atiku to instantly cease presenting himself because the social gathering’s presidential candidate.

Okechukwu urged Atiku to chorus from actions able to undermining the authority of the court docket, the management of Nafiu Bala Gombe and the unity of the social gathering.

Okechukwu mentioned: “The Zonal Leadership unanimously handed a vote of confidence on Hon. Nafiu Bala Gombe because the genuine and subsisting management of the Party, and additional resolved to subject this formal warning to you to desist forthwith from parading your self because the presidential candidate of the ADC.

“You are hereby reminded {that a} Court of competent jurisdiction, presided over by Hon. Justice Peter Lifu, delivered judgment on fifth November 2026, invalidating the management of Sen. David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola.

“That judgment is subsisting. It has not been put aside, stayed, vacated, or reversed by any superior court docket. Until and until it’s so put aside, it stays binding on you, on all members of the Party, and on all individuals claiming by way of or beneath the invalidated management, pursuant to the doctrine of obedience to court docket orders and the rule of regulation.

“It is a matter of incontrovertible authorized consequence that the David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola-led management, which purportedly produced you as presidential candidate, has been declared invalid by a court docket of regulation.

“In regulation, you can’t construct one thing on nothing and anticipate it to face. A candidacy that flows from an invalidated management is itself with out authorized basis. There isn’t any legitimate platform upon which your purported presidential candidacy can relaxation.

“Your continued marketing campaign, public shows, and parading of your self because the ADC presidential candidate quantity to an outright violation of the subsisting court docket order and declaration contained within the judgment of Hon. Justice Lifu delivered on fifth November 2026.

“No individual, nevertheless extremely positioned, is above the regulation. The continued defiance of a legitimate judgment of court docket is an affront to the authority of the judiciary and a direct problem to constitutional order.

“You are therefore warned, in the clearest terms, to: Desist immediately from parading yourself as the presidential candidate of the ADC; Cease forthwith all campaign activities, rallies, publications, and representations made in that capacity; and Refrain from any act capable of undermining the authority of the Court, the leadership of Hon. Nafiu Bala Gombe, and the unity of the Party.”

The zonal leaders warned that failure to conform would compel them to discover obtainable authorized choices, together with contempt of court docket proceedings and different civil and legal processes permitted by regulation.

He added, “Take discover that failure to adjust to this warning will depart the Party with no possibility however to invoke all obtainable authorized cures, together with however not restricted to, proceedings for contempt of court docket, and such different civil and legal processes because the regulation permits, to guard the integrity of the judgment and the Party.

“The law must be obeyed. The judgment must be respected. The Party will not stand by while its name, platform, and processes are used in defiance of a court of law.”