{"id":178503,"date":"2025-09-11T20:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:57:35","slug":"court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader","title":{"rendered":"Court Bars INEC from Recognizing Aregbesola as ADC Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognising David Mark, and a former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, as interim national chairman and National Secretary, respectively, of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.<\/p>\n<p>This followed a motion ex parte dated September 2, 2025, and filed by Nafiu Gombe.<\/p>\n<p>The motion listed the ADC, Mark, and Aregbesola as the first, second, and third defendants, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>INEC and a former national chairman of the party, Ralph Nwosu, were listed as the fourth and fifth defendants, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The order of interim injunction issued by Justice Emeka Nwite also restrains INEC from recognising the representatives of Mark and Aregbesola, pending the hearing of the motion on notice already filed in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>INEC had on its website officially recognised Mark and Aregbesola as the interim national chairman and national secretary, respectively, of the ADC.<\/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 Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognising David Mark, and a former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, as interim national chairman and National Secretary, respectively, of the African Democratic Congress, ADC. This followed a motion ex parte dated September 2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[118,1678,69,251,7486,254],"class_list":["post-178503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adc","tag-aregbesola","tag-court","tag-inec","tag-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>Court Bars INEC from Recognizing Aregbesola as ADC Leader - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fro ...\" \/>\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\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court Bars INEC from Recognizing Aregbesola as ADC Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, fro ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-11T19:52:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-11T20:57:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757611829.850876.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Court Bars INEC from Recognizing Aregbesola as ADC Leader\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-11T19:52:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-11T20:57:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader\"},\"wordCount\":169,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757611829.850876.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"aregbesola\",\"court\",\"INEC\",\"Mark\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-bars-inec-from-recognizing-aregbesola-as-adc-leader\",\"name\":\"Court Bars INEC from Recognizing Aregbesola as ADC Leader - 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