{"id":178577,"date":"2025-09-12T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:58:16","slug":"inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu","title":{"rendered":"INEC recognition of Mark-led ADC irresponsible \u2014 Kachikwu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the 2023 general elections, Dumebi Kachikwu, has described as irresponsible the recognition of former Senate President, David Mark, as National Chairman of the party by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking as a guest in an interview on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a programme on Channels Television on Thursday, Kachikwu said that he had never had faith in the current leadership of the electoral body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we saw from the INEC chairman was another irresponsible act from the outgoing chairman of INEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a norm that when you have cases that are in court, you respect those cases that are in court, and you shouldn\u2019t do anything that will affect the outcomes of those cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe courts are sitting on our matter with David Mark and co next month, and Nigerians will see the rulings after the courts sit,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Nigeria was considered a failed nation by many because of recycled politicians who had failed to provide good leadership and would further destroy the country if allowed to return to 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. Former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the 2023 general elections, Dumebi Kachikwu, has described as irresponsible the recognition of former Senate President, David Mark, as National Chairman of the party by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Speaking as a guest in an interview on \u2018Politics Today\u2019, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[118,251,8607,254],"class_list":["post-178577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-adc","tag-inec","tag-kachikwu","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>INEC recognition of Mark-led ADC irresponsible \u2014 Kachikwu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the 2023 general elections, Dumebi Kachikwu, h ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC recognition of Mark-led ADC irresponsible \u2014 Kachikwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in the 2023 general elections, Dumebi Kachikwu, h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-12T07:55:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-12T08:58:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757655089.21866.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=\"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\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"INEC recognition of Mark-led ADC irresponsible \u2014 Kachikwu\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-12T07:55:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-12T08:58:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu\"},\"wordCount\":204,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757655089.21866.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ADC\",\"INEC\",\"Kachikwu\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/inec-recognition-of-mark-led-adc-irresponsible-kachikwu\",\"name\":\"INEC recognition of Mark-led ADC irresponsible \u2014 Kachikwu - 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