{"id":122205,"date":"2025-09-12T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=122205"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:59:04","slug":"no-court-removed-mark-aregbesola-as-chairman-secretary-adc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/no-court-removed-mark-aregbesola-as-chairman-secretary-adc\/","title":{"rendered":"No court removed Mark, Aregbesola as Chairman, Secretary &#8211; ADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa, Abuja<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has stated that there is no court injunction restraining David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola from parading themselves as the party\u2019s national chairman and secretary, respectively.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recall that former Vice Chairman of the party, Nafiu Bala, claimed that he obtained a court order affirming him as the new national chairman of the party following the resignation of Ralph Nwosu.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement issued on Thursday, Bolaji Abdullahi, ADC spokesperson, said that Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, in a ruling on September 4, rejected an ex parte application filed by Bala.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abdullahi said the judge instead ordered the defendants\u2014Mark and Aregbesola\u2014to be notified and to appear in court to explain why the application should not be granted.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the case was adjourned to September 15.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dismissing Bala&#8217;s claim as fake, Abdullahi continued, &#8220;Resorting to fake news has become the last resort of desperate political jobbers who had been disappointed by INEC\u2019s decision to stand on the side of the Nigerian people by acknowledging the leadership change in the party.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe 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.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having failed to stop INEC from acknowledging the leadership change in ADC, the political jobbers are now resorting to fake news.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This goes to show that these agents of destabilization will stop at nothing, including misrepresenting court rulings, in their desperate efforts to sow confusion and further undermine opposition parties.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The coalition party urged party members and Nigerians to \u201cbe vigilant and be wary of fake news and inaccurate reports characteristic of the ruling party and their agents.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recall that on Wednesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recognized the ADC national working committee (NWC) led by Mark.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myke Agunwa, Abuja The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has stated that there is no court injunction restraining David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola from parading themselves as the party\u2019s national&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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