{"id":176347,"date":"2025-08-27T22:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:38:12","slug":"nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman","title":{"rendered":"Nafiu Bala Claims Authenticity as ADC National Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress, ADC, took a new twist on Wednesday, as Nafiu Bala assumed office as the National Chairman of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the press at her resumption, Bala described himself as the authentic National Chairman of the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the electoral act and ADC\u2019s constitution put him as the natural successor after Ralph Nwosu resigned as the party\u2019s National Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Nwosu had resigned from his position after the opposition coalition adopted ADC, a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Upon Nwosu\u2019s resignation, David Mark was appointed as the Interim National Chairman of the party.<\/p>\n<p>But Bala, who is the Deputy National Chairman had accused the coalition leaders like former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of hijacking the ADC.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bala said: \u201cAs our party\u2019s National leadership, we are not aware of any change of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur party\u2019s former National chairman voluntarily resigned his position as the national Chairman of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur party\u2019s constitution is very clear on the transfer of power or what we can do when the party\u2019s national chairman resigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as our party is concerned, the electoral act and our party constitution says the deputy National Chairman can takeover the leadership of the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI now resume office as the authentic National Chairman of our great party, the African Democratic Congress, APC.\u201d<\/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 leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress, ADC, took a new twist on Wednesday, as Nafiu Bala assumed office as the National Chairman of the party. Addressing the press at her resumption, Bala described himself as the authentic National Chairman of the ADC. He explained that the electoral act and ADC\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":176346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[18563,1578,18222,254],"class_list":["post-176347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc-crisis","tag-breaking","tag-nafiu-bala","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>Nafiu Bala Claims Authenticity as ADC National Chairman - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress, ADC, took a new twist on Wednesday, as Nafiu Bala assumed ...\" \/>\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\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nafiu Bala Claims Authenticity as ADC National Chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress, ADC, took a new twist on Wednesday, as Nafiu Bala assumed ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-27T21:32:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-27T22:38:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756321832.738966.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"797\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nafiu Bala Claims Authenticity as ADC National Chairman\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-27T21:32:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-27T22:38:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman\"},\"wordCount\":248,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756321832.738966.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC Crisis\",\"breaking\",\"Nafiu Bala\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nafiu-bala-claims-authenticity-as-adc-national-chairman\",\"name\":\"Nafiu Bala Claims Authenticity as ADC National Chairman - 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