The Court of Appeal in Abuja will now on Monday 13/7/26 deliver judgment in an appeal filed by David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola against the judgment of the Abuja Federal High Court which stopped them from dissolving the States Working Committees, SWC, of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.
The judgment earlier slated to be delivered on Wednesday afternoon 8/7/26 was abruptly put off at the eleventh hour when a registrar of the court entered the courtroom and announced that the judgment had been put off.
Reports say no reason was given for the postppnement announced after lawyers, newsmen and politicians had taken their seats and waited for more than two hours for the verdict.
The ADC, Mark and Aregbesola had in the appeal challenged the decision of Justice Joyce Abdulmalik which stopped them from cutting short the four years tenure of the state officers of the party.
Recall, the High Court suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/58/2026 was brought by Don Norman Obinna, Johnny Tovie Derek, Obah C. Ehigiator, Hon. Olona Yinka, Dr. Charles Idowu Omideji, Samuel Pam Gyang and Obianyo Patrick, acting as plaintiffs, had sued for themselves and on behalf of all State Chairmen and State Executive Committees of the ADC.
At the heart of their dispute was whether the four-year tenure of the ADC’s State Working Committee and State Executive Committee remains valid and subsisting, pending the conduct of a properly constituted State Congress and the convocation of a National Convention.
The plaintiffs had anchored their argument on Section 223 of the 1999 Constitution as well as Article 17 of the party’s constitution and a Final Mediation Report dated December 23, 2023.
The plaintiffs had contested the legality of actions taken by a body described as the “Caretaker/Interim National Working Committee,” which they claimed was not constitutionally recognized within the framework of the party.
They further asked the high court to determine whether such a body has the authority to appoint Congress Committee Members for the purpose of conducting state congresses.
