The Federal High Court in Abuja has postponed judgment in a suit filed by House of Representatives member, Leke Abejide, seeking to challenge the leadership of the African Democratic Congress.
The case, which was scheduled for judgment on Monday, April 13, before Justice Musa Liman, was adjourned to April 14 due to the judge’s involvement in another official engagement.
Justice Liman had earlier fixed the date after counsel to Abejide, Ibrahim Idris, SAN, alongside lawyers representing the defendants, adopted their processes and presented arguments for and against the case.
Abejide, who represents his constituency under the platform of the ADC, is asking the court to stop former Senate President, David Mark, and former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, from presenting themselves as the party’s national chairman and national secretary.
The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1637/2025 and filed on February 15, 2026, lists the ADC, its former national chairman Ralph Nwosu, Mark, Aregbesola, and the Independent National Electoral Commission as defendants.
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At the centre of the dispute is the leadership transition that took place on July 2, 2025, at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre in Abuja, where Nwosu stepped down and handed over the party’s leadership to Mark and Aregbesola in interim capacities.
Abejide is seeking multiple reliefs from the court, including an order nullifying the handover, which he described as unlawful and invalid.
He is also asking the court to restrain Mark and Aregbesola from acting or presenting themselves as leaders of the party, arguing that their emergence did not follow due process.
In addition, the lawmaker wants the court to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from recognising them in those roles, maintaining that their appointments did not comply with the provisions of Section 82 of the Electoral Act, 2022.
The matter is now expected to be decided when the court reconvenes on April 14.