Party Leadership: No Court Injunction Against David Mark, Aregbesola — ADC

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has clarified that contrary to misleading reports, the Federal High Court successful Abuja did not contented immoderate bid restraining Senator David Mark and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola from acting arsenic the party’s National Chairman and National Secretary, respectively.

In its ruling connected September 4, 2025, presided implicit by Hon. Justice Emeka Nwite, the tribunal refused the ex-parte exertion filed by Hon. Nafiu Bala Gombe and alternatively ordered that the defendants beryllium enactment connected notice, look to amusement origin wherefore the exertion should not beryllium granted, and adjourned the substance to September 15, 2025.

The ADC noted that resorting to fake quality has go the past edifice of hopeless governmental jobbers who had been disappointed by INEC’s determination to basal connected the broadside of the Nigerian radical by acknowledging the enactment alteration successful the absorption party.

The enactment besides urged the media and the nationalist to beware of fake quality and to verify accusation to debar misleading Nigerians.

The ADC spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, said contrary to immoderate misleading publications, the tribunal did not contented immoderate bid restraining Senator Mark and Ogbeni Aregbesola from functioning arsenic the National Chairman and National Secretary of the ADC, respectively.

Instead, the Honourable Court refused the ex-parte exertion brought by Hon. Nafiu Bala Gombe and directed that the substance proceed with owed process.

“The ruling, delivered by Hon. Justice Emeka Nwite connected September 4, 2025, intelligibly stated the pursuing 4 orders: That the Plaintiff/Applicant’s exertion dated and filed connected September 2, 2025, is refused; that the Plaintiff/Applicant is hereby directed to enactment the Defendants connected notice; that the Defendants/Respondents are ordered to look earlier this Honourable Court to amusement origin wherefore the exertion should not beryllium granted, and, that the lawsuit is adjourned to September 15, 2025, for the Defendants/Respondents to amusement cause.

“The Order was duly signed and issued by Hon. Justice Emeka Nwite, Presiding Judge, and certified by Kasope Kafayat Bola, Registrar of the Federal High Court.

“Having failed to halt INEC from acknowledging the enactment alteration successful ADC, the governmental Jobbers are present resorting to fake news.

“This goes to amusement that these agents of destablisation volition halt astatine nothing, including misrepresenting tribunal rulings, successful their hopeless efforts to sow disorder and further undermine absorption parties.

“In this regard, the enactment of the ADC urges members of the property and the wide nationalist to beryllium vigilant and beryllium wary of fake quality and inaccurate reports diagnostic of the ruling enactment and their agents,” the connection added.