BREAKING: Court Nullifies Atiku’s 2027 Presidential Candidacy

• The Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified the Senator David Mark-led ADC caretaker committee and invalidated actions taken under its authority, including Atiku Abubakar’s emergence as the party’s 2027 presidential candidate.

The Federal High Court in Abuja has sacked the Senator David Mark-led leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), declaring its caretaker committee illegal and nullifying actions taken under its authority, including the nomination of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections.

Justice Peter Lifu delivered the judgment on Thursday, ruling that the process through which the Mark-led committee assumed control of the opposition party was unlawful.

The court consequently invalidated decisions taken by the caretaker committee, including the presidential primary election that produced Atiku as the ADC’s flag bearer.

The judgment followed a suit instituted by the party’s former National Deputy Chairman (North-East), Nafiu Bala Gombe, who challenged the legitimacy of the leadership arrangement that brought Mark and his associates into control of the ADC.

Gombe argued that following the resignation of the party’s former National Chairman, Chief Ralph Nwosu, he was entitled to assume the party’s leadership.

He consequently asked the court to declare the Mark-led caretaker committee illegal and nullify all actions undertaken on behalf of the party by the disputed leadership.

In his ruling, Justice Lifu found merit in Gombe’s case and declared the caretaker committee unlawful, effectively invalidating the decisions it had taken, including Atiku’s nomination.