ADC youths issue INEC 72-hour ultimatum, threaten nationwide protest

The Youth Wing of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has issued a three-day ultimatum to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, demanding the restoration of the party’s enactment arsenic recognized successful 2025 oregon look nationwide civic action.

Addressing journalists connected Monday astatine the party’s nationalist office successful Abuja, the ADC National Youth Leader, Balarabe Rufa’i, accused INEC of undermining ideology and acting extracurricular its law powers.

Rufa’i described Nigeria arsenic being “under antiauthoritarian siege,” alleging that institutions meant to safeguard the volition of the radical were being compromised and weaponized against antiauthoritarian principles.

He traced the situation to a National Executive Committee, NEC, gathering held connected July 29, 2025, wherever the enactment dissolved its National Working Committee and produced a caller enactment led by David Mark. According to him, INEC had initially verified and officially recognized the result successful September 2025 without immoderate dispute.

“Months later, individuals who had already resigned resurfaced to situation a process they had nary ineligible lasting in,” Rufa’i said, adding that contempt a Court of Appeal directive to support the past uncontested position, INEC allegedly ignored the bid and acted connected pending motions and non-binding communications.

He insisted that INEC lacked the law authorization to construe tribunal rulings, describing its acti...