{"id":72105,"date":"2025-08-05T14:04:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72105"},"modified":"2025-08-05T14:04:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:04:33","slug":"adc-chairmen-reject-alleged-takeover-by-david-mark-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/adc-chairmen-reject-alleged-takeover-by-david-mark-group\/","title":{"rendered":"ADC Chairmen Reject Alleged Takeover by David Mark Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The crisis in the African Democratic Congress (ADC), deepened on Tuesday as the party\u2019s state chairmen denounced what they described as an unconstitutional attempt by a group led by former Senate President David Mark to seize control of the party.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement titled \u201cRejecting the Political Junta by Defending ADC and Nigeria\u2019s Democracy Against Subversion,\u201d Forum Leader Elias Adokwu and Publicity Secretary Godwin Alaku called the move a \u201cblatant and reckless subversion\u201d of democratic norms.<\/p>\n<p>They accused the group of orchestrating a \u201cpolitical coup\u201d through manipulation and backdoor dealings, warning that it amounted to a \u201ccivilian junta\u201d seeking to hijack the ADC outside legal and democratic processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe unequivocally condemn in the strongest terms this desperate power grab,\u201d the chairmen said, describing it as a threat to Nigeria\u2019s democratic values.<\/p>\n<p>The forum said the attempted takeover disrespected those who had worked to build and sustain the party\u2019s democratic structures. They accused the coalition of pursuing selfish ambitions and offering inducements to subvert internal party processes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the internal turmoil, the chairmen reaffirmed their commitment to democracy, rule of law, and ideological clarity, insisting that \u201cthe ADC is not for sale, not for hijack, and certainly not a dumping ground for discredited power brokers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to resist any attempt to legitimise the alleged plot, and called on Nigerians, civil society, and security agencies to reject what they described as creeping authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, the legitimate custodians of the ADC structure across all states of the federation, reject this illegitimate junta,\u201d they concluded. \u201cWe consider it our patriotic duty to defend the soul of the ADC and protect the sanctity of democratic institutions in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The crisis in the African Democratic Congress (ADC), deepened on Tuesday as the party\u2019s state chairmen denounced what they described as an unconstitutional attempt by a group led by former Senate President David Mark to seize control of the party. In a joint statement titled \u201cRejecting the Political Junta by Defending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-72105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72107,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72105\/revisions\/72107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}