BREAKING: Court sacks Mark-led ADC management, nullifies Atiku’s 2027 presidential nomination

A federal excessive court docket in Abuja has nullified the management
of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) led by David Mark.

 

In a judgment delivered on Thursday, Peter Lifu, presiding
decide, declared the Mark-led caretaker committee unlawful, ruling in favour of
Nafiu Bala Gombe, a former nationwide deputy chairman (north-east) of the social gathering.

Lifu additionally invalidated all selections taken by the social gathering’s
caretaker committee, together with the nomination of Atiku Abubakar because the ADC
presidential candidate for the 2027 election.

Bala approached the court docket to problem the method by which
Mark and different members of the caretaker committee assumed management of the social gathering
after Ralph Nwosu, the previous nationwide chairman, resigned.

He argued that, following Nwosu’s resignation, he was
constitutionally entitled to imagine the social gathering’s management.

The plaintiff requested the court docket to nullify all selections taken
by the Mark-led management and restrain Mark and Rauf Aregbesola from parading
themselves because the social gathering’s nationwide chairman and nationwide secretary,
respectively.

He argued that their emergence violated the ADC structure
and provisions of the Electoral Act.

The swimsuit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025, listed the ADC,
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mark, Aregbesola and Nwosu as
defendants.

In his judgment, Lifu upheld Bala’s claims and granted the
reliefs sought, successfully invalidating the actions of the caretaker
committee, together with the method that produced Atiku because the social gathering’s
presidential candidate.

INEC had earlier revealed Atiku’s identify because the ADC’s
candidate for the January 16, 2027 presidential election. The former
vice-president has additionally picked Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers, as
his operating mate.

Reacting to the ruling, Nkemakolam Ukandu, the ADC nationwide
welfare secretary, stated the social gathering would problem the judgment on the appellate
court docket.

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