Justice Ahmed Isa of Adamawa State, High Court sitting Yola has stopped the state chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) from holding its planned congresses.
Justice Isa, who presided over the case, said the suspension of the congresses slated for Thursday would remain in place pending the determination of the case.
He subsequently set April 15, 2026, as a date for continuation of the hearing.
The state ADC chairman Shehu Yohanna, had gone to the court, to stop the congresses alleging that he was excluded from the process.
Yohanna sued Sadiq Dasin, the state chairman of the transition committee.
Meanwhile, the North East Vice Chairman of the party and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, he denied knowledge of the court ruling.
Lawal said “I’m in Abuja, so I don’t know about the case. Go and ask those who were in court today. I don’t know anything about the court case. “
In another development, the party’s chapters in Anambra, Ondo, Niger, Osun, and Oyo have suspended the plan to hold congresses while Plateau, Jigawa, Edo and Kogi State chapters are pressing on with their state congresses just as the state chapters in Osun, Kaduna, Zamfara and Abia were undecided because of the existing leadership crises and factions.
However, the David Mark-led NWC, is in Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking orders to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reverse its decision to delete the party’s top officials from its records.
The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025, was as a result of the removal of the names of Mark, listed as National Chairman, and Rauf Aregbesola, National Secretary, from INEC’s official portal on April 1.
In a motion on notice dated April 7, the embattled chairman, through his counsel, Sulaiman Usman (SAN), prayed the court to issue a mandatory injunction directing the electoral body to immediately restore the names of the party’s National Working Committee members as they existed prior to the dispute.
The application, brought pursuant to Order 26 Rules 1 to 4 of the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2019, as well as under the court’s inherent and equitable jurisdiction, seeks three principal reliefs.
The applicant also sought “an order of mandatory injunction, directing INEC to forthwith restore and maintain records of the names of Senator David Mark as National Chairman and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as National Secretary, as well as all members of the National Executive Committee.”
