Supporters of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, took to the streets of Abuja on Wednesday to protest the court order that invalidated his candidacy for the 2027 elections.
The protesters stormed the Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding the release of the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the judgment by Justice Peter Lifu, which nullified his candidacy.
The aggrieved protesters alleged that the delay in releasing the CTC to Atiku’s lawyers is a ploy to deprive him of his right to appeal the judgment that sacked the former vice president as the ADC’s presidential candidate.
Apart from submitting their petition at the Federal High Court, the protesters added that they are also going to the US Embassy and the United Nations to submit the same petition and ask for their intervention.
Naija News recalls that a Federal High Court in Abuja had lastweek, nullified the leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) led by former Senate President David Mark and invalidated all decisions the party’s caretaker committee made, including the nomination of Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2027 election.
In a judgment delivered on Thursday, the presiding judge, Peter Lifu, declared the Mark-led caretaker committee illegal, ruling in favour of the party’s former national deputy chairman (north-east), Nafiu Bala Gombe.
The court ruled in favour of Gombe, who had approached the court to query the process through which the Senator Mark-led Committee took over the reins of leadership of the party.
He maintained that, with the resignation of the former National Chairman, Ralph Nwosu, he (Gombe) was qualified to assume the party’s leadership.
Consequently, he, among other things, prayed the court to nullify all actions taken on behalf of the party by the Senator Mark-led leadership.
The ADC has already appealed the judgment.
