Three members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) have instituted a lawsuit before a federal high court in Abuja, challenging the interim leadership of the party led by former Senate President David Mark.
On June 2, opposition politicians unveiled the ADC as the
platform to rally votes against President Bola Tinubu in the next elections.
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; Rotimi Amaechi, former
minister of transportation; Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour
Party (LP) in the 2023 elections; and Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of
Kaduna, are at the forefront of the opposition campaign.
Ralph Nwosu, the former national chairman of the ADC, said
the executives of the party under his leadership decided to resign and support
the interim leadership.
The coalition appointed Mark and Rauf Aregbesola,
ex-governor of Osun state, as interim national chairman and secretary,
respectively.
Bolaji Abdullahi, a former minister of sports, was appointed
as the party’s spokesperson.
However, in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1328/2025 and filed
on July 4, the plaintiffs, Adeyemi Emmanuel, Ayodeji Victor Tolu, and Haruna
Ismaila, are asking the court to determine the legality of the interim
leadership of the ADC.
They averred that Nwosu lacks the right to convene either a
national working committee (NWC) or national executive committee (NEC) meeting
or any other since his tenure as national chairman has expired.
The plaintiffs also stated that interim executives “cannot
and should not act” in a leadership capacity, noting that they were appointed
by an illegal meeting organised by a former national chairman.
Among several reliefs sought, the plaintiffs are asking the
court to declare the appointment of Mark, Aregbesola, and Abdullahi as
“unconstitutional, unlawful, null, and void”.
They also prayed the court for an order restraining the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “from recognising the fourth,
fifth, and sixth defendants as the interim national chairman, national
secretary, and national publicity secretary of the first defendant (ADC).
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