Re: ||NaijaObserver|| Pastor Emeka Okala: Congratulations! Your Kwankwaso With Registration Number 000201 Has Joined ADC Like I Said He Would

[Chukwuemeka Okala]

 

"...he [Rabiu Kwankwaso] has done so [registered as a member of the ADC] like I said he would. His ADC Registration Number is 000201."  -  Kayode Adebayo

Comment:

Kayode Adebayo,

So, you are now the PA to Rabiu Kwankwaso.

Congratulations 

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

On Monday, 30 March 2026 at 16:48:42 BST, 'Kayode Adebayo' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

Congratulations! I told you your dumb Kwankwaso would join the Association for Disabled Candidates (ADC) today and he has done so like I said he would. His ADC Registration Number is 000201. You're getting closer and closer to being appointed as the Minister of Aso Rock Affairs that your dumb leader called Peter Obidiot promised to give in 2027. It can't get any better than that.

Let's start with your dumb Kwankwaso's Registration Number 000201. If his registration number is 000201, that means only 201 members including Kwankwaso have registered as members of ADC so far since the day Atiku and his fellow hijackers hijacked the ADC from the original owners.

In the meantime, start packing your luggage from your London abode, in preparation to move to Aso Rock. Your flight ticket is waiting for you at the Heathrow Airport in London 

The movie is just starting!

Enjoy!

Kayode 

On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 11:47 AM, Kayode Adebayo

<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

Welcome to Part Two of ADC's political travails and  turmoils, beginning tomorrow Monday playing near you, featuring Atiku, Amaechi, Peter Obidiot, Kwankwaso, Makinde, Aregbesola, the Obidiots, the Kwakasuyas and others in-between, including the original owners of ADC. 

It's a long and interesting movie with several parts, like never before that will transverse several months, through the ADC National Convention to January 2027 Presidential Election.

Get your popcorn ready. It's a movie of a lifetime and you're in the movie too.

Enjoy!

Kayode 

On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 6:55 PM, Kayode Adebayo

<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Congratulations, Pastor Emeka Okala:

The partyless Kwankwaso is joining the structureless ADC on Monday. Unfortunately, he has no assets to bring to ADC, but liabilities. He has been expelled from NNPP. He will now join your Peter Obidiot with no delegates to counter Atiku with plenty of delegates at ADC Convention.

Congratulations!

Kayode 

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[Chukwuemeka Okala]

".Gbam! I just told you two days ago to be preparing for an unprecedented uproar, crisis and disruption to ADC, because Atiku and his gang of hijackers (David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola) who hijacked ADC from the original owners of ADC would be upended, as the marathon movie of ADC's turmoils has just begun, and it has started to unfold just like I said it would, with court case and INEC now deleting the hijackers' names and their factions from its register because they're illegal members"  -  Kayode Adebayo

Comment:

Kayode Adebayo,

It's a shame that you have decided to pretend not to know the apparently indefatigable treachery of President Tinubu and his APC to end at nothing to destroy the opposition forces so Tinubu would have a smooth sail for his evil ambition to rule Nigeria a second time with his UNPARDONABLE ineptitude and obvious frailty.

They penetrated the erstwhile formidable and well-organised Labour Party (LP) through the willing and open hands of Julius Abure and Apapa who finally injected toxicity into the body politic of the LP which constrained Peter Obi to helplessly, but wisely leave the party for them. He refused to swallow their bait, if you know what I mean. 

You know the truth but instead of acknowledging it, you and you minions on this platform have chosen to castigate Peter Obi as lacking the know-how to manage a party. How? 

They also penetrated the PDP and injected the party with the same poison and the once prided largest political party in West Africa has been reduced to one of the infinitesimal political parties in Nigeria for the same purpose  -  making the force of  opposition go extinct for a smooth sail of the wishes and desires of President Tinubu to do a second term. God forbid!!

Perhaps you think that discussants are not noticing your role in the scheme of things. No! you are very wrong! They understand your role perfectly but what they (including this writer) may not understand is why you have chosen to play that unenviable role against the well-being of the Nigerian state. Is it out of tribalism or inducement? Whichever way, the fact still remains that people have understood your role long time ago and that's the reason why your contributions to political dynamics of the polity ceased to hold water for a very long time too.

Bottom line:  Nigeria is not Lagos State. It's too large and complex for Tinubu to do a Lagos State, where, he remains the owner and overall socio-political and economic influencer to this day. His tenure will elapse at the end of his first term in May 2027. And that's the simple truth! Meka.

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

 

On Wednesday, 1 April 2026 at 21:31:53 BST, 'Kayode Adebayo' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:ttom

Gbam! I just told you two days ago to be preparing for an unprecedented uproar, crisis and disruption to ADC, because Atiku and his gang of hijackers (David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola) who hijacked ADC from the original owrners of ADC would be upended, as the marathon movie of ADC's turmoils has just begun, and it has started to unfold just like I said it would, with court case and INEC now deleting the hijackers' names and their factions from its register because they're illegal members.

I told you last year that Atiku and his gang illegally hijacked ADC from the original owners and that would spark crisis in ADC. Your Peter Obidiot's candidacy in ADC is now hanging on the roof. Their fate will be determined by the original owners of ADC.

They are dummies. Instead of them to go and register a new political party afresh, like APC did when it formed a coalition of political parties,vthey decided to short cut and steal an existing party from the original owners, because their so-called coalition died a natural dead before it could see the light of the day just like I said it would and this is part of the consequences. You don't steal someone's party, just because you have money that you stole from Nigerians.

Whenever I talk, always listen. Keep watching the movie of the lifetime. This is just the beginning of their crisis of ADC and it will continue through their convention to the presidential election in January 2027.

Keep Watching and Enjoy!

Kayode 

ADC: INEC strikes out David Mark, Aregbesola’s names from portal

Daily Post 

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has removed the names of David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola from its official portal as National Chairman and National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), respectively.

The commission also said it would not recognise Nafiu Bala Gombe, who is seeking to be declared national chairman through the courts.

INEC announced on Wednesday that it would suspend recognition of all factions within the party and refrain from monitoring any conventions or congresses organised by groups aligned with the affected leaders.

The decision, it said, will remain in place pending the final determination of a substantive suit before the Federal High Court.

The development follows a leadership crisis within the ADC and a recent judgment of the Court of Appeal in Suit No. CA/ABJ/145/2026, which has further complicated the dispute.

In a statement, the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Mallam Mohammed Kudu Haruna, said the Commission remains committed to neutrality.

He urged political stakeholders to avoid actions that could disrupt preparations for the 2027 general elections.

INEC disclosed that it had received a letter dated March 16, 2026, from Suleiman Usman SAN & Co, warning against any recognition of Nafiu Bala Gombe as acting national chairman while legal proceedings are ongoing.

The Commission also confirmed receiving a separate “Demand for Enforcement” from Summit Law Chambers, representing Gombe, which called for the removal of Mark and Aregbesola from INEC’s records and urged the Commission to stop engaging with them or recognising any activities conducted under their authority.

The conflicting legal demands from the rival factions have deepened the party’s internal crisis, prompting INEC to halt all official dealings with the contending groups until the courts resolve the matter.

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[femi Olajide]

PCO,

You keep giving excuses for the incompetence of the opposition.

For a moment, let's pretend you're very right and all the higgledy-piggledy happening in all opposition parties are the machination of one single man,isn't worth it to doff your hat to that single man ingenuity?

Once you know the strategy of your adversary and yet you fall for it all the time at every corner, who do you blame for it?

Do you blame the genius of your adversary to sow discord in your camp or blame your own incompetence to ward of meddling in your internal affairs by your adversary?

The problem with you PCO and other failing opposition promoter is that you fail

Regards,

Femi Olajide

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[femi Olajide]

PCO,

You keep giving excuses for the incompetence of the opposition.

For a moment, let's pretend you're very right and all the higgledy-piggledy happening in all opposition parties are the machination of one single man,isn't worth it to doff your hat to that single man ingenuity?

Once you know the strategy of your adversary and yet you fall for it all the time at every corner, who do you blame for it?

Do you blame the genius of your adversary to sow discord in your camp or blame your own incompetence to ward of meddling in your internal affairs by your adversary?

The problem with you PCO and other failing opposition promoter is that you fail to take responsibility for your inadequacies by blaming your adversary's ingenuity as the cause of your failure.

Is Tinubu a superhuman who single handedly sowed the seed of discontent in PDP, labour and now, ADC?

Come look internally at the desperate, failed and incompatible association of personalities in the opposition parties.

If these fools are unable to organize a single party coherently(with probably less than 5million members each) and align all members towards a focussed objective, how do you expect them to align a country of 250 million towards a shared and focussed vision for development?

I beg, there is something chronically wrong with the opposition. It's no surprise nor coincidence that those who failed and ran Labour, PDP etc down are the same set of people failing and destabilizing ADC. Just figure that out!


Regards,

Femi Olajide

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[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"For a moment, let's pretend you're very right and all the higgledy-piggledy happening in all opposition parties are the machination of one single man,isn't worth it to doff your hat to that single man ingenuity?"  -  Femy Olagide

Comment:

Femi Olajide,

I don't know how old you were during the reign of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) as the Military President of Nigeria. He singularly deployed and diabolically abused the might of the Instrument of Power of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under his control to brazenly cancel the result of the fairest, freest and most credible general election that clearly produced late MKO Abiola as the chosen and preferred President at the time. Because IBB (one man) was able to cower the entire Nigerian population at the the time, to satisfy his whims and caprices, did you doff your hat to him, if you were an adult then?

Today President Tinubu is sitting on the might of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as its caretaker for now. But like IBB, he is dangerously and diabolically abusing his position to distabilise democracy in Nigeria and you give him a thumbs-up and a high-five as a genius? No, that's a misnomer in all its ramifications! I would rather you call him an Evil-Genius. That was the title that Nigerians aptly gave to IBB.

Since he left power, did IBB ever showcase his "ingenuity" anywhere again? No way!!

Yours truly, President Tinubu is able to do what he is doing today against Nigeria and Nigerians, not because of ingenuity but because he is controlling the might of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He would be left powerlessly naked like IBB the moment he leaves power! if your conscience doesn't blame you, then keep doffing your hat to him. Meka

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

 

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[femi Olajide]

PCO,

Are you comparing a decision taken by INEC to respect an appeal court ruling to a unilateral cancellation of an election on no basis at all?

What exactly is wrong with you people?

Are you comparing internal strife or disagreement within a party with the military dictatorship that cancelled an election that was deemed fair and free by all?

In no ambiguous terms, specifically state steps taken by Tinubu to cause the weakening of Labour, PDP and/or ADC. No conjectures or innuendos.

You guys should just put your houses on order. It is said and commonly believed that the first step of solving your problem is identifying that you have a problem. If the opposition are able to identify Tinubu as their problem, why have they allowed the bickering amongst themselves knowing that there is an enemy without pulling a discord string to undermine their cohesiveness.

You can hardly call Tinubu a dictator of any substance. All that had befallen these opposition parties are schemes of their own making!

Regards,

Femi Olajide

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PCO,

Are you comparing a decision taken by INEC to respect an appeal court ruling to a unilateral cancellation of an election on no basis at all?

What exactly is wrong with you people?

Are you comparing internal strife or disagreement within a party with the military dictatorship that cancelled an election that was deemed fair and free by all?

In no ambiguous terms, specifically state steps taken by Tinubu to cause the weakening of Labour, PDP and/or ADC. No conjectures or innuendos.

You guys should just put your houses on order. It is said and commonly believed that the first step of solving your problem is identifying that you have a problem. If the opposition are able to identify Tinubu as their problem, why have they allowed the bickering amongst themselves knowing that there is an enemy without pulling a discord string to undermine their cohesiveness.

You can hardly call Tinubu a dictator of any substance. All that had befallen these opposition parties are schemes of their own making!

Regards,

Femi Olajide

PCO,

Are you comparing a decision taken by INEC to respect an appeal court ruling to a unilateral cancellation of an election on no basis at all?

What exactly is wrong with you people?

Are you comparing internal strife or disagreement within a party with the military dictatorship that cancelled an election that was deemed fair and free by all?

In no ambiguous terms, specifically state steps taken by Tinubu to cause the weakening of Labour, PDP and/or ADC. No conjectures or innuendos.

You guys should just put your houses on order. It is said and commonly believed that the first step of solving your problem is identifying that you have a problem. If the opposition are able to identify Tinubu as their problem, why have they allowed the bickering amongst themselves knowing that there is an enemy without pulling a discord string to undermine their cohesiveness.

You can hardly call Tinubu a dictator of any substance. All that had befallen these opposition parties are schemes of their own making!

Regards,

Femi Olajide

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[Gee Kay]

Actually, with all these, our democracy will continue to improve with each passing day. 

Inspite of all everything, more people are going into politics everyday.

Whether it be those who will want to profiteer callously and become billionaires and trillionaires overnight, or those who seek truly seek to drive and effect great change in whatever small amounts. 

That explains why some of us stayed back in Nigeria, and refused the lure of the other land. 

We will enjoin our people to learn the routine that will enable change makers take power. 

Little things like getting good lawyers to identify, explore and exploit legal loopholes in our transition to democracy matters. 

ADC recent trauma was simply an exploitation of legal loopholes. 

They have also dared to go ahead with their convention. 

That may be another expansion of legal loopholes. 

This idea of leasing political parties from the initial owners who registered it is not even sustainable. 

It will be well with Nigeria. 

GK. 

Port Harcourt. 

[femi Olajide]

PCO,

Not that I agree with NNPP about God's hand in the travails of these oppositions,ADC on this occasion, however see other ideas being floated by your fellow shirkers of responsibility and self-denying political carpetbaggers.

https://matazarising.com/2026/04/02/nnpp-sympathises-with-adc-blames-crisis-on-kwankwaso/

Regards,

Femi Olajide

[femi Olajide]

PCO,

You're tripping!

For once I'm in support of Kayusee's analysis unequivocally as we both arrived at the same conclusion independently.

PCO, it's people like you that give Nigeria bad name while trying to play holier than thou which is very apparent to even a bad light!

I sincerely pity those in your congregation who hold on to your words from the pulpit with tenacity as a man of God.

How can one who believed he had the divine calling to serve God and be truthful come rain or sunshine be this deceitful?

It's a shame and I'm embarrassed on your behalf🤭😱

Regards,

Femi Olajide

On Thursday, 2 April 2026 at 21:22:06 GMT+1, Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

Your dumb APC lawyers who failed Law School woefully don't understand the meaning of 'Status quo ante bellum' in Law. When the court of law says all parties before it must maintain 'Status quo ante bellum', it means all parties to the dispute before it must revert to the initial status, before the crisis started. Which means the ADC must go back to the previous Executive Council that ADC had before the hijackers called Atiku and his gang called David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola hijacked the ADC. To do that, INEC would ask ADC to install the previous Executive Council of ADC before the hijack, and if INEC had done that, the like of Atiku, David Mark, Rauf Aregbesola, Peter Obidiot and Amaechi would be crying foul calling INEC patisan. Instead, INEC while respecting the court order, decided to not recognize any factions of ADC, until the court's final judgment on the case, in order to maintain neutrality. Which is good.

Unfortunately, your ADC Lawyers failed law woefully. They all need to be debarred from practicing law in Nigeria until they pass Law School Bar exams.

They are a disgrace to Nigeria and the entire Legal System.

Kayode 

On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 7:40 AM, Kayode Adebayo

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Pastor Emeka Okala:

According to your postulation and logic:

1. Tinubu pushed Atiku to bribe Nwosu, in order to illegally hijack ADC from the original owrners, instead of registering a new political party like APC did in 2013.

2. According to your postulation and logic, Tinubu made your dumb and witless Peter Obidiot to create crises in a non crisis Labor Party handed over to him by Pat Utomi in 2022.

3. According to your postulation and logic, it was Tinubu who made Atiku to insist on making Iyocha Ayu chairman of PDP, which led to PDP crisis, instead of appointing or electing someone from the South as the majority of the members wanted in 2018.

4. According to your postulation and logic, it was Tinubu who made Peter Obidiot lack crisis management skills and leadership skill necessary to be the leader of Labor Party.

5. According to your postulation and logic, it was Tinubu who forced Peter Obidiot to join ADC, instead of resolving LP internal crises, or register a new political party.

6. According to your postulation and logic, it was Tinubu that made Peter Obidiot to chase after celebrities in Nigeria like the P-Square or P-Squad  musical group or whatever they are called in Nigeria for photo ops, instead of facing and resolving Labor Party crises he unwittingly created.

7. According to your postulation and logic, it was Tinubu that caused your selfish homeboy called Wike who contributed to PDP factionalization and division, because he wants to be President of Nigeria after Tinubu.

It's time you wake up from too much Kaikai drinking and hallucinations, aka Emu Mimon, aka Apeteshi, aka Ogogoro, aka Pito, aka 4.30pm, aka Umqombothi, aka Sapele Water, aka Oguro, aka Push Me I Push You and aka Holy Water Must Flow In London Tonight. 

Kayode 

[femi Olajide]

Some cannot be helped by anything. They have buried their head so far and so deep inside the Obidiot's anti-Tinubu cesspool that they cannot see the light of day forever.

It is so sad to see a purported man of God descend to such depth of abyss.knowingly with eyes wide open but shut!.

Regards,

Femi Olajide

On Friday, 3 April 2026 at 00:13:15 GMT+1, 'Kayode Adebayo' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Ignoramus Called Pastor Emeka Okala:

Go back to school and study law. It's not too late for you to go back to school. If you had studied law, you would have understood that it's imperative for INEC to obey the court order and you would have understood the meaning and interpretation of 'status quo ante bellum' and the importance of obeying the court order. 

What a Pastor!

Kayode 

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[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"The commission [INEC] said at its meeting on Tuesday, it resolved “to maintain the status quo ante bellum as directed by the court of appeal based on the facts and position of the parties existing before 2nd September 2025, when the case was filed by the plaintiff”."  -  Excerpt from report posted by Kayode Adebao

Comment:

Kayode Adebayo,

What was the structured position of the Party (ADC) before 2nd September 2025? Let me help you. Before 2nd September 2025, ADC has been superintended by Hon David Mark as its National Chairman and Rauf Aregbesola as its National Secretary - including all other functionaries of the party. The maintenance of that existing structure before Nafiu Bala approached the court on 2nd September 2025 is what the Court means by reverting the situation to a status quo ante bellum. 

For rascally bringing the sledgehammer against Chairman Mark and Secretary Aregbesola, INEC has clearly acted against the decision of the court on this occasion. The INEC Chairman is gradually exposing himself. I'm afraid! 

Sorry whatever interpretation you are trying to give to that clearly unambiguous statement of the court on this occasion is a mere spinning and therefore holds no water one bit!

Bottom-line: President Tinubu can play all his wicked cards against Nigeria and Nigerians all he wants, the truth remains that Nigerians have decided to flush him out in the upcoming Presidential election. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu MUST be voted out with his glaring ineptitude so Nigeria can breathe come 2027. Meka

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

On Friday, 3 April 2026 at 05:07:12 BST, 'Kayode Adebayo' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

For your ignorance, you don't appeal a case that's  pending final determination in a court of law, unless you know you are guilty of the accusation. Atiku and his gang of hijackers called David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola rushed to the appeal court to use their power to stop the lower court from making a judgment on an on going case, because they knew they bribed Nwosu to orchestrate a coup detat to install them as owners of ADC. That's a foul and the court of appeal, realizing what they were trying to do against the original owners stopped them immediately, by dismissing the appeal as meritless. They were jumping the gun, because they were guilty as charged. That's a shame.

Kayode 

ADC leadership crisis: What we know so far

The Cable 

The decision of the Comment (INEC) not to recognise any faction of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has deepened the party’s leadership crisis, with conflicting claims and counter-claims continuing to trail a recent court ruling.

At the centre of the dispute are David Mark, former senate president; and Nafiu Bala, who was one of the deputy national chairmen of the party — with both men laying claim to the leadership structure of the party.

HOW IT ALL STARTED

The current crisis is rooted in efforts by opposition figures to build a broader political coalition ahead of the 2027 elections.

In a move aimed at consolidating forces against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), political leaders across different platforms began pitching tent with the ADC in 2025.

Aside from Mark, some of the coalition members include ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; Uche Secondus, former PDP national chairman; Babangida Aliyu, former governor of Niger state; Sam Egwu, former governor of Ebonyi; Aminu Tambuwal, ex-governor of Sokoto; and Liyel Imoke, former governor of Cross River.

Others are Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna; Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the LP in 2023; Rauf Aregbesola, former minister of interior; Rotimi Amaechi, former minister of transportation; Solomon Dalung, ex-minister of sports; Odigie Oyegun, former chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC); Bolaji Abdullahi, a former minister of sports; among others.

On July 2, Ralph Nwosu, the party’s founder and former national chairman, announced the resignation of the national working committee (NWC), paving the way for an interim leadership structure headed by Mark.

However, the arrangement was soon contested by a faction within the ADC.

Bala, who was the vice-national chairman of the party, maintained that he never resigned his position and argued that, following the exit of the party chairman, he ought to have assumed leadership in line with the party’s constitution.

He then declared himself party chairman, vowing to go against the Mark leadership in court.

BALA AND THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT

On September 2, 2025, Bala approached a federal high court in Abuja (Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025), seeking to stop Mark’s team members from parading themselves as party leaders.

He also sought an order to restrain INEC from recognising them and to compel recognition of himself as acting national chairman.

He further filed motions seeking to stop the party from holding meetings, congresses, or conventions pending the determination of the suit.

The motion ex parte was heard on September 4, 2025, and Emeka Nwite, the trial judge, directed that the respondents, including INEC, be put on notice to show cause why the motion ex parte should not be granted.

MARK AND THE COURT OF APPEAL 

Dissatisfied with an interim ruling, David Mark filed an appeal challenging the jurisdiction of the federal high court to continue to hear Bala’s suit.

However, on March 12, 2026, the court of appeal dismissed Mark’s case in its entirety, holding that it was incompetent and unmeritorious.

A three-member panel of the appellate court, led by Uchechukwu Onyemenam, found that there was no substantive ruling by the federal high court on the ex parte application, as the trial judge merely ordered that parties be put on notice.

As such, there was no valid decision upon which an appeal could properly be anchored.

The court further faulted Mark for relying on an enrolled order rather than the actual proceedings and ruling of the trial court, noting that only the judge’s pronouncement constitutes the authentic record of the court.

It also held that the appeal arose from an interlocutory step, for which Mark failed to obtain the required leave before approaching the appellate court.

On the issue of jurisdiction, the court of appeal noted that the question was still pending before the federal high court and could not be determined at the appellate level at that stage, describing the appeal as premature.

Having dismissed the appeal, the court proceeded to make preservatory orders aimed at safeguarding the subject matter of the dispute.

It directed parties to maintain the status quo ante bellum and refrain from taking any action capable of undermining the proceedings before the trial court.

The court also ordered an accelerated hearing of the substantive suit and awarded costs of N2 million against Mark.

In effect, while the court of appeal rejected Mark’s procedural challenge, it did not resolve the underlying question of who is the legitimate leader of the ADC, leaving that determination to the federal high court.

INEC STEPS IN

In a press release dated April 1, 2026, INEC said it had received conflicting demands from both sides.

After reviewing the court judgment and filings, Mohammed Haruna, INEC commissioner for information and voter education, said the commission will refrain from engaging with both groups or monitoring their meetings, congresses, and conventions.

The commission said at its meeting on Tuesday, it resolved “to maintain the status quo ante bellum as directed by the court of appeal based on the facts and position of the parties existing before 2nd September 2025, when the case was filed by the plaintiff”.

INEC added that it would “refrain from taking any step or doing any act capable of foisting a fait accompli on the court or otherwise rendering nugatory the proceedings before the trial court”, in line with the appellate court’s directive.

Meanwhile, Bolaji Abdullahi, national publicity secretary of ADC, has said the party will go ahead with its congresses and convention whether INEC shows up to monitor the events or not.

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[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"Go back to school and study law. It's not too late for you to go back to school. If you had studied law, you would have understood that it's imperative for INEC to obey the court order and you would have understood the meaning and interpretation of 'status quo ante bellum' and the importance of obeying the court order."  -  Kayode Adebayo

Comment:

Kayode Adebayo,

In the first place, are you really sure that you understand the concept of status quo ante in Law? If you do, you wouldn't make the above silly statement, I'm afraid. Lord have mercy. The Court reverted the situation to a status quo ante bellum before 2nd of September 2025, which, in other words, means that the situation should remain what it was before 2nd of September 2025.

So, what was the situation before 2nd September 2025? Before 2nd September 2025 Hons David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola have been the National Chairman and the National Secretary of the Party respectively, aside from other party functionaries. Kayode Asebayo, this has been the party structure for which the Court unambiguously instructed should be maintained hitherto. You claim to know the Law, but going by your line of argument in most cases, you appear to be badly bereft of the knowledge of the Law as a discipline. I'm afraid! You may be the one that needs to go back to school to update your knowledge of Law. Methinks.

Furthermore, the Court did not say anywhere that INEC should divide ADC into two factions, but the INEC under the leadership of Prof J Amupitan maliciously acted utra vires by trying to create a nonexistent faction of the ADC to be led by Nafiu Bala (who is not even a member of ADC anymore), just to act out the script of Tinubu and his evil APC. Sorry, Nigeria is not Lagos State that Tinubu plays like a football the much he wants, even up until today. Nigeria is a very complex nation-state that no one can afford to toy with!

Sorry man, there's nowhere that the court ordered Amupitan to create a division in ADC!! So, I don't know what you are talking about!!! Lord have mercy,

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

On Friday, 3 April 2026 at 00:41:54 BST, Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Ignoramus Called Pastor Emeka Okala:

Business Communication is not law. It's Business Communication. That's why you want INEC to disobey the court of law. If you had studied law, you would know better.

Go back to school and study Law.

Kayode 

[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"According Bala Gombe, he was not party to the Executive Council dissolution. He did not give his consent, but Nwosu went ahead anyway, forging his signature. To apply the legal phrase 'status quo ante bellum' to this legal issue, it means the state of affairs at ADC when Nwosu was the National Chairman and Bala Gombe was the that Nafiu Bala Gombe Vice-National Chairman which was before the hijackers hijacked the Executive Council of ADC without invitation."  -  Kayode Adebayo

Comment:

Kayode Adebayo,

You seem to overlook the fact that Nafiu Bala Gombe on his own volition (not under duress) resigned his membership of the party and therefore has no locus standi to file a legal suit on behalf of the party. Yet Prof Joash Amopitan tried to create a faction under his (Nafiu Bala Gombe) leadership. Who does that?

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

 

On Friday, 3 April 2026 at 18:08:09 BST, Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

In the meantime, advise your fellow coup plotters in Association of Decimated Coupists (ADC) called Atiku, Peter Obidiot, Kwankwaso, David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola to desist from going ahead with their planned Congresses and National Convention which they said they will do without INEC authorization. Tell them INEC will not recognize the results of their congresses and convention if they do. They need to wait for the court decision on the case. It would be a waste of their time, energy and resources which they stole from Nigerians while in office. The options are: 1. Wait for the court judgment on the case. 2. Join another party now while they can, in case the original owrners win the case in court.

Law must be obeyed.

Kayode 

On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 12:26 PM, Kayode Adebayo

<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

By the way, I meant to write 'status quo' not 'status quo ante'. 'Status quo' means the way things currently are in Law, while 'status quo ante' means the way things were and 'status quo ante bellum' means the way things were before the conflict or crisis.

Kayode 

On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM, Kayode Adebayo

<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

Continue to give your own interpretation to please yourself. Law is not Business communication. It's Law.

Allow me to lecture you on Law, you discombobulated Pastor of London. The legal phrase 'status quo ante bellum' in law, means the state or status of things before the conflict or crisis started in Law. We also have what we call 'status quo' which denotes the state or status of things the way they currently are. 

The crisis in ADC started when the hijackers called Atiku, David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola without invitation, forced themselves on ADC from PDP and orchestrated a coup d'etat, bribing and using Nwosu to dismantle the Executive Council of ADC to which Bala Gombe was the Vice-National Chairman and Nwosu the National Chairman, by asking them to resign, instead of registering a new political party. 

According Bala Gombe, he was not party to the Executive Council dissolution. He did not give his consent, but Nwosu went ahead anyway, forging his signature. To apply the legal phrase 'status quo ante bellum' to this legal issue, it means the state of affairs at ADC when Nwosu was the National Chairman and Bala Gombe was the Vice-National Chairman which was before the hijackers hijacked the Executive Council of ADC without invitation. Your half-baked interpretation would only apply, if the court had asked the parties to maintain 'status quo' which means the way things currently are.

Pastor Emeka Okala, it's not too late to go back to school and study Law. Studying Law will expand your horizon and stop your discombobulation. There is a difference between Business Communication and Law.

Kayode

[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"The options are: 2. Join another party now while they can, in case the original owrners win the case in court."  -  Kayode Adebayo

Comment:

Kayode Adebayo,

You've finally unveiled the ultimate goal of the diabolical project of your principal (APC). Your goal is, to put a knife on the thing that held them together and they will fall apart (apologies to Chinua Achebe) and in the process they would all scatter and join other mushroom parties which would make it easier for Tinubu to have a smooth sail in his presidential ambition. No way! It won't work!! Trust me!!!

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

 

On Friday, 3 April 2026 at 18:08:09 BST, Kayode Adebayo <kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

In the meantime, advise your fellow coup plotters in Association of Decimated Coupists (ADC) called Atiku, Peter Obidiot, Kwankwaso, David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola to desist from going ahead with their planned Congresses and National Convention which they said they will do without INEC authorization. Tell them INEC will not recognize the results of their congresses and convention if they do. They need to wait for the court decision on the case. It would be a waste of their time, energy and resources which they stole from Nigerians while in office. The options are: 1. Wait for the court judgment on the case. 2. Join another party now while they can, in case the original owrners win the case in court.

Law must be obeyed.

Kayode 

On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 12:26 PM, Kayode Adebayo

<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

By the way, I meant to write 'status quo' not 'status quo ante'. 'Status quo' means the way things currently are in Law, while 'status quo ante' means the way things were and 'status quo ante bellum' means the way things were before the conflict or crisis.

Kayode 

On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM, Kayode Adebayo

<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"If the court meant what you claimed above, of what benefit is the lawsuit to Mr. Nafiu Bala who filed it? Wouldn't the situation still look like he did not file any lawsuit? You are selfishly misinterpreting "status quo ante bellum", pastor Ọkala, so let me refresh your understanding."  -  Nebukadineze Adiele

Comment:

Nebukadineze Adiele,

In the first place, Rafiu Bala Gombe has no locus standi in the case. So, his suit should have been struck out on arrival. I don't know why the court did not consider that - maybe that would apply in a future date or the respondents' solicitors did not ask for that. Whatever is the reason, we would see later.

No, I'm not selfishly misinterpreting Status quo ante bellum as you opined. What do I stand to gain by doing so? Makes no sense. Regardless, thanks for throwing more lights to the debate. Meka

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

 

On Friday, 3 April 2026 at 14:31:38 BST, 'Nebukadineze Adiele' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

>>.... Before 2nd September 2025, ADC has been superintended by Hon David Mark as its National Chairman and Rauf Aregbesola as its National Secretary - including all other functionaries of the party. The maintenance of that existing structure before Nafiu Bala approached the court on 2nd September 2025 is what the Court means by reverting the situation to a status quo ante bellum. << (Chukwuemeka Ọkala)

If the court meant what you claimed above, of what benefit is the lawsuit to Mr. Nafiu Bala who filed it? Wouldn't the situation still look like he did not file any lawsuit? You are selfishly misinterpreting "status quo ante bellum", pastor Ọkala, so let me refresh your understanding.

Status means "state"/"condition;" quo means "in which;" ante means "before," and bellum means "war." Taken altogether, the phrase means "the state in which things stood before the war (in this case, the war was whatever led Nafiu Bala to file the lawsuit). The court's purpose for this ruling is to not favor any party until the court shall have heard the case in detail, therefore the judge asked the parties to go back to where things stood when there was no fighting (war) -- again, the war is whatever led Mr. Bala to file the lawsuit, which you enumerated in the excerpt I took from your words; the judge asked them to go back to where they stood before Mark and Aregbesola took over -- the specific factor that aggrieved Bala and led to the war (filed lawsuit). 

ADC should not allow itself to be imperiled by bad lawyering and unnecessary appeal to the sensationalism of APC's corruption and democracy damaging. There is no doubt that APC is corrupt and is corruptly using INEC and the courts to undermining democracy, but ADC should not assist APC by not knowing the proper interpretation of "status quo ante bellum". If ADC sticks to its false interpretation of this court ruling, and allows it to give INEC a reason to stymie their participating in next year's elections, ADC will have itself to blame for falling for the trap that APC set for it. 

Nebukadineze Adiele

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[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"Bala Gombe, a person who is not only an original member of the party (ADC) but also an executive member has a legal standing (locus standi) in the case to contest the coup d'etat and the usurpation of Atiku and his cohorts and hijackers of the Executive Council of ADC. He was one of the injured members of the ADC in the case."  -  Kayode Adebayo

Comment:

Kayode Adebayo,

Yes Nafiu Bala Gombe was a party functionary of the ADC, but like Nwosu, he resigned his membership of the party on his own volition. From the day he tendered his resignation and that resignation accepted, he ceased to have locus standi to act for and on behalf of the party. The court should have struck out that case filed by him immediately. Who knows why the court didn't do so?

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God.

On Friday, 3 April 2026 at 21:52:27 BST, 'Kayode Adebayo' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Pastor Emeka Okala:

You are as ignorant of the law as the Googler and Lawyer Wannabe who never attended any law school anywhere in the world called Nebukadimonkey Adiele you're arguing with.  Bala Gombe, a person who is not only an original member of the party (ADC) but also an executive member has a legal standing (locus standi) in the case to contest the coup d'etat and the usurpation of Atiku and his cohorts and hijackers of the Executive Council of ADC. He was one of the injured members of the ADC in the case. 

For your ignorance, if Bala Gombe had no legal standing in the case, the court wouldn't have entertained his case. The fact that the lower court entertained his case and the fact that the appeal court dismissed Mark’s appeal suffice as recognition of Bala Gombe to institute the case against Mark and Rauf Aregbesola.

Both of you should go and study law. 

Kayode

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[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Policy Communication, has declared that a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Peter Obi would never be president of Nigeria."

"I thought I was the only one that knows that Peter Obidiot will never be president of Nigeria in this lifetime.  I didn't know other people know that too"  -  Kayode Adebayo

Comment:

Let me first laugh in Aisha Yesufu's style, "e v e v e k u v e". 

Kayode Adebayo, So, Daniel Bwala is your benchmark and hero?  A man with ZERO integrity, who would ferociously launch the most despicable of a diatribe against a person in public today, but with inducement, will turn around the next day to not only serve under the same person but shamelessly sing praises of him public - all because of pecuniary gains, Pity!

What a hero you have in Daniel Bwala. I wish you luck. Meka

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

On Saturday, 4 April 2026 at 03:35:42 BST, 'Kayode Adebayo' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 

Pastor Emeka Okala:

I thought I was the only one that knows that Peter Obidiot will never be president of Nigeria in this lifetime.  I didn't know other people know that too. The fool is not a presidential material. Pastor Emeka Okala, if I were you, I would dissociate myself from a perpetual and destined loser called Peter Obidiot who is destined to lose Presidency like Atiku. The fool will never be president of Nigeria in this lifetime like I said several times before.

Kayode 

Why Peter Obi will never be Nigerian president – Tinubu’s aide, Bwala

Daily Post 

Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Policy Communication, has declared that a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Peter Obi would never be president of Nigeria.

Bwala said Obi lacks the characteristics of a person who wants to be president of Nigeria.

Featuring on News Central TV’s 60 Minutes with Mr Kay on Friday, Bwala said: “Peter Obi will never be president. He will never cross the central business district that will lead Aso Villa.

Anybody that would be a president, there are characteristics that you will see.

“The person must be visionary, the person must be grassrooted, organic grassrooted, not manipulation, and the person must be sincere for whatever he is but won’t present a picture for what he is totally the opposite for who he is, Peter Obi will never be.”

The presidential aide also noted that the former Anambra State governor lacks grassroot support.

He also accused Obi of selling fake narrative to the Nigerian church during the past administration of the late former president Muhammadu Buhari.

“Peter Obi does not have a grassroot, what Peter Obi did is that he went to the church with a narrative when Buhari was in government that the church is being disenfranchised and it’s time for the church to take back their country.

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