There is seeming tension of uncertainty as the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja shifted judgment in a fresh suit seeking to remove Senator David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola as Chairman and Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), respectively, to Tuesday, April 14, 2026.

The judgment in the suit filed by a member of the House of Representatives from Kogi State, Hon. Leke Abejide, was slated for Monday, April 13, but the trial judge, Justice Musa Liman, shifted it forward by 24 hours due to other pressing official engagements.

A Registrar of the Court announced the adjournment of the date for the delivery of the judgment on Monday the in the court early.

Most of the politicians, mainly from the camps of the lawmaker and David Mark-led leadership, vacated the courtroom after the announcement.

It would be recalled that the Judge had last Friday fixed April 13 to deliver the judgment after Abejide’s counsel, Ibrahim Idris, SAN, and lawyers to the defence adopted their written addresses for and against the suit.

Abejide, a member of the House of Representatives on the platform of the ADC, had filed the suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/1637/2025 through his lawyer on February 15, listing ADC, Ralph Nwosu, Mark, Aregbesola and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as 1st to 5th defendants respectively.

Nwosu was the former national chairman of ADC who stepped down for Mark, the former Senate President, to take over the leadership of the party.

Abejide, among the eight reliefs, sought an order nullifying Nwosu’s handover or transfer of ADC’s leadership to Mark and Aregbesola as interim National Chairman and interim National Secretary, respectively on July 2, 2025, at Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, Abuja, for being illegal, unlawful, null and void.

He sought an order of perpetual injunction restraining Mark and Aregbesola from parading themselves as leaders of the party “as their purported appointment, selection or election was unlawful, illegal, null and void.