{"id":168818,"date":"2025-07-08T20:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark"},"modified":"2025-07-08T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:01:08","slug":"adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark","title":{"rendered":"ADC Lacks Preferred Presidential Aspirant David Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Interim National Chairman of the newly formed opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, David Mark, has clarified that the party has no preferred presidential aspirant for the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Mark made this statement on Tuesday while addressing stakeholders of the Kogi chapter of the ADC at a meeting in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The former Senate President assured Nigerians that, under his leadership, the party would operate with complete transparency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ADC has no preferred or favourite presidential aspirant, but has set out to first put out a platform that would be attractive and acceptable to the majority of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing this because we do not want this great ship called Nigeria to sink, because if we do not rise up now and it sank all of us will be affected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, all members of the party are equal stakeholders, equal joiners, and equal owners.<\/p>\n<p>The former military governor of Niger State urged members to put aside their differences and work as a team.<\/p>\n<p>He called on some politicians to stop attacking others and instead focus on addressing the key challenges facing the nation, such as insecurity, which the ADC leadership has pledged to tackle if it assumes power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Interim National Chairman of the newly formed opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, David Mark, has clarified that the party has no preferred presidential aspirant for the 2027 general elections. Mark made this statement on Tuesday while addressing stakeholders of the Kogi chapter of the ADC at a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[118,8952,254],"class_list":["post-168818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc","tag-david-mark","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ADC Lacks Preferred Presidential Aspirant David Mark - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Interim National Chairman of the newly formed opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Davi ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ADC Lacks Preferred Presidential Aspirant David Mark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Interim National Chairman of the newly formed opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Davi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T19:56:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T21:01:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751995933.251412.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ADC Lacks Preferred Presidential Aspirant David Mark\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-08T19:56:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-08T21:01:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark\"},\"wordCount\":224,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751995933.251412.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"David Mark\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adc-lacks-preferred-presidential-aspirant-david-mark\",\"name\":\"ADC Lacks Preferred Presidential Aspirant David Mark - 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