Confusion, anxiety over INEC ‘freezing of David Mark’s ADC leadership’

On Wednesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, announced it removed the names of David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola from its authoritative portal arsenic the National Chairman and the National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, respectively.

INEC besides announced that it would suspend designation of each factions wrong the enactment and refrain from monitoring immoderate conventions oregon congresses organized by groups aligned with the affected leaders.

DAILY POST reports that the announcement has created disorder and anxiousness successful the party.

INEC said the determination followed a enactment situation wrong the ADC and a caller judgement of the Court of Appeal successful Suit No. CA/ABJ/145/2026, which has further analyzable the dispute.

INEC disclosed that it had received a missive dated March 16, 2026, from Suleiman Usman SAN & Co, informing against immoderate designation of Nafiu Bala Gombe arsenic acting nationalist president portion ineligible proceedings are ongoing.

The Commission besides said it would not recognise Nafiu Bala Gombe, who is astatine the centre of the situation and seeking to beryllium declared nationalist president done the courts.

The decision, it said, volition stay successful spot pending the last determination of a substantive suit earlier the Federal High Court.

In a statement, the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mallam Mohammed Kudu Haruna, ...