ADC is not for sale, Ralph Nwosu lacks power to hand power over to you, Party members tells David Mark, others, seeks legal redress
The crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC) seems unending and more conundrum trailing the emergence of the Sen David Mark led interim National Executives of the party following a lawsuit filed on Friday at the Federal High Court, Abuja by some ward executives and members of the African Democratic Congress alleging that strange persons want to take over their party from back doors.
In an originating summons with suite number FHC/ABJ/CS/1328/2025 filed by three ADC ward officials from Kogi and Nassarawa States and thirty others, the plaintiffs affirmed that the erstwhile National Chairman of the Africa Democratic Congress (ADC) Lacks the right in law to convene NWC, NEC or meeting of any other organ of the party since his tenure as National Chairman has expired.
The plaintiffs also stated that Sen David Mark, Alh Rauf Aregbesola, Bolaji Abdullahi and others given the power of interim National working committee members cannot and should not act in such capacity because they well appointed by an illegal meeting called by a former National Chairman.
They also argued that David Mark and others were not properly registered having not been registered from their wards, just as they stated that they could not hold party positions having not spent up to two years as members of the party neither have they been given waiver by legitimate National Executive Committee as prescribed by the constitution of the party.
In a 26 count affidavit sworn to by the first plaintiff, Emmanuel Adeyemi from Kabba,
/Bunu LGA, Kogi State, the plaiting are seeking for the following declaration
1. A Declaration that the appointment and nomination of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Defendants as Interim National Chairman, National Secretary, and National Publicity Secretary of the 1st Defendant is unconstitutional, unlawful, null and void.
2. A Declaration that the appointment of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Defendants is inconsistent with and contrary to the combined provisions of the Constitution of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), 2018 (as amended).
3. A Declaration that the act of the 3rd Defendant in handing over the party’s structure, and continuing to present himself as the National Chairman of the 1st Defendant, constitutes a breach of the judgment delivered by Hon. Justice Binta Nyako in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/1541/2022 on 21st December 2022.
4. An Order restraining the 2nd Defendant from recognizing the 4th, 5th, and 6th Defendants as the Interim National Chairman, National Secretary, and National Publicity Secretary of the 1st Defendant.
