{"id":70033,"date":"2025-07-08T23:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70033"},"modified":"2025-07-08T23:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:10:05","slug":"adc-committed-to-saving-nigeria-not-for-sale-david-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/08\/adc-committed-to-saving-nigeria-not-for-sale-david-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"ADC Committed to Saving Nigeria, Not for Sale, -David Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Senate President David Mark has reaffirmed the African Democratic Congress (ADC)&#8217;s commitment to transparency, unity, and national rescue, declaring that the party is not for sale and has no preferred presidential aspirant.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a meeting with ADC stakeholders from Kogi State in Abuja on Tuesday, Mark stressed the need for urgent action to save Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not want this great ship called Nigeria to sink. If we don\u2019t rise now, we\u2019ll all be affected,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>He called for unity within the party, urging members to put aside personal interests and work together to build a credible alternative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t own this party more than any member. Nigerians must take ownership of the ADC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mark emphasized that the ADC is focused on tackling national challenges like insecurity and is ready to provide responsible leadership if given the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mohammed Sheriff, head of the ADC\u2019s national legal support group, raised concerns about lawsuits filed by individuals allegedly impersonating party members in Kogi and Nasarawa States.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that 97 lawyers have volunteered to defend the party\u2019s interests in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Former Senate President David Mark has reaffirmed the African Democratic Congress (ADC)&#8217;s commitment to transparency, unity, and national rescue, declaring that the party is not for sale and has no preferred presidential aspirant. Speaking during a meeting with ADC stakeholders from Kogi State in Abuja on Tuesday, Mark stressed the need for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":70034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70035,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70033\/revisions\/70035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}