ADC enters ‘Crisis Avenue’ as Nafi’u Bala challenges David Mark “takeover”

By Kingston Magare 31-7-2025
A Former governorship aspirant under the banner of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Gombe State Nafi’u Bala, declared Wednesday night he was the authentic national chairman of the party.
This is coming on heels of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Senate president David Mark, Peter Obi and Nasir El Rufai forming an alliance and pitching their tents with the ADC. On July 2, 2025, ADC founder Ralph Nwosu, endorsed the coalition and announced the resignation of the National Working Committee (NWC) to pave way for the David Mark leadership of the ADC
Mr Bala argued that the ADC was hijacked by the David Mark-led coalition group and according to him, the ADC will not surrender its structures to external political actors.
“We wish to draw the attention of all members of our great party and Nigerians at large, to the ongoing acts of political hooliganism being perpetrated by some individuals who were hitherto entrusted with the leadership of the party,” Bala said.
“We are all living witnesses to the show of shame and acts of lawlessness being displayed by these unscrupulous leaders, who, without any qualm or sense of moral restraint, plunged our party into a needless crisis and leadership uncertainty.”
He added that it was unconstitutional for the ADC to mortgage the future of the party
“The idea of mortgaging the future of our great party, by abdicating the constitutional duties and responsibilities of all elected officers of the party, to some powerful outsiders who never belong to the party, is condemnable.
“In case these individuals choose to ignore our urgent calls to obey our constitutional guidelines and thus remain very obdurate and recalcitrant in their aberrant behaviour, we shall proceed with gusto to challenge these gross acts of impunity in the courts and bring them to justice,” he said.
Bala emphasized that the party’s constitution clearly outlines the processes for leadership succession and that, in line with those provisions, he was now assuming the position of interim national chairman.
He called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “urgently” recognise him as the legitimate leader of the party.