{"id":12013,"date":"2026-11-07T18:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/adc-appeals-judgment-sacking-mark-led-leadership-asks-inec-to-suspend-action-businessday-ng\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T18:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:15:59","slug":"adc-appeals-judgment-sacking-mark-led-leadership-asks-inec-to-suspend-action-businessday-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/adc-appeals-judgment-sacking-mark-led-leadership-asks-inec-to-suspend-action-businessday-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"ADC appeals judgment sacking Mark-led leadership, asks INEC to suspend action &#8211; Businessday NG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has appealed the Federal High Court judgment nullifying the leadership of the David Mark-led faction and invalidating the process that produced its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for the 2027 general election.\n<\/p>\n<p>Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council, said on Friday that the party had filed a notice of appeal and applied for a stay of execution pending the determination of the appeal.\n<\/p>\n<p>The appeal followed Thursday\u2019s judgment by Peter Lifu, a Federal High Court judge in Abuja, which nullified the Mark-led caretaker committee and its decisions.\n<\/p>\n<p>The ruling followed a suit filed by Nafiu Bala, a former ADC national deputy chairman, who challenged the emergence of Mark\u2019s leadership.\n<\/p>\n<p>Shaibu said the party had formally notified the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), urging it to suspend further action on the matter until the appellate court rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ADC is exercising its lawful right to appeal. The judgment is now under challenge before a higher court, and the legal process must be allowed to run its course,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ADC is exercising its lawful right to appeal. The judgment is now under challenge before a higher court, and the legal process must be allowed to run its course,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He warned INEC against taking steps that could pre-empt the outcome of the appeal, insisting that the party\u2019s campaigns would continue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur campaigns continue without interruption. There is no stopping the affordability train or our mission to make life better for Nigerians,\u201d Shaibu added.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"bday-read-also\">\n<h4>Related News<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bday-google-badges\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=businessday.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ADC-appeals-judgment-sacking-Mark-led-leadership-asks-INEC-to-suspend-action-Businessday-NG.jpg\" alt=\"Add BusinessDay as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKQgKIiNDQklTRkFnTWFoQUtEbUoxYzJsdVpYTnpaR0Y1TG01bktBQVAB?hl=en-NG&amp;gl=NG&amp;ceid=NG%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ADC-appeals-judgment-sacking-Mark-led-leadership-asks-INEC-to-suspend-action-Businessday-NG-1.jpg\" alt=\"Follow BusinessDay on Google News\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Businessday NG<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has appealed the Federal High Court judgment nullifying the leadership of the David Mark-led faction and invalidating the process that produced its presidential candidate, Atiku&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}