Benue ADC guber primary: Joseph Waya drags Herman Hembe to court

A caller ineligible conflict has erupted implicit the African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship superior successful Benue State, arsenic 1 of the aspirants, Chief Joseph Waya, has dragged the party’s governorship candidate, Herman Hembe, to the Federal High Court, Abuja, challenging the validity of his emergence.

In the suit, Waya is seeking to invalidate the governorship superior purportedly conducted betwixt May 22 and 24, 2026, with the effect declared connected May 25, 2026.

According to tribunal documents, the plaintiff contended that the superior predetermination was not conducted by the competent organ of the enactment arsenic required by the ADC Constitution. 

He argued that the workout was conducted by a operation whose congresses had earlier been nullified by a tribunal judgement delivered connected April 29, 2026.

Waya further challenged Hembe’s eligibility to contention the primary, alleging that the erstwhile House of Representatives subordinate was nether a subsisting three-month suspension imposed by the Benue State Executive Committee of the ADC connected March 27, 2026.

Part of the tribunal filing stated that Hembe was, by virtuousness of Article 9(iii) of the party’s constitution, not eligible to beryllium voted fo...