The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday nullified the management of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) led by Sen. David Mark.
Justice Peter Lifu, in a judgment, additionally invalidated all choices taken by the social gathering below the Mark-led management.
Justice Lifu declared as unlawful the Mark-led Caretaker Committee, which carried out the first election that produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the social gathering’s flag bearer for the 2027 presidential election.
The choose dominated in favour of former ADC National Deputy Chairman, North-East, Mr Nafiu-Bala Gombe, who challenged the method by way of which the Mark-led management assumed management of the social gathering.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) studies that Gombe had, within the swimsuit, argued that following the resignation of former National Chairman of the social gathering, Chief Ralph Nwosu, he was constitutionally entitled to take over the social gathering’s management.
He consequently requested the courtroom to invalidate all actions taken by the Mark-led management and restrain Mark and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the National Secretary, and different members of their caretaker committee, from parading themselves as legitimate leaders of the social gathering.
The plaintiff maintained that their emergence violated the ADC structure and related provisions of the Electoral Act.
The swimsuit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025, listed the ADC, Independent National Electoral Commission, Mark, Aregbesola and Nwosu as 1st to fifth defendants respectively.
Delivering the judgment, Justice Lifu upheld Gombe’s claims and granted the reliefs sought.
Reacting to the judgment, the ADC National Welfare Secretary, Nkemakolam Ukandu, who was joined within the swimsuit as an social gathering, mentioned the social gathering would attraction the ruling.(NAN)
