Leke Abejide, a member of the house of representatives, has resigned from the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, Abejide, the lawmaker representing the Yagba federal constituency in Kogi, alleged that the ADC has been “hijacked” by individuals with ill intentions.
“It is a painful decision but necessary to save my political future from those who came to destroy my former political party that I laboured hard to nurture and love dearly,” he said.
Abejide, who chairs the house committee on customs, said he instituted a case against the David Mark leadership of the ADC in August 2025, noting that allies of the defendants “kept applying to join the suit to delay the matter from being adjudicated upon”.
“Due to long adjournment, occasioned by the opposing counsel’s tactics to frustrate the speedy hearing of my suit, my counsel then advised me I should be looking for an alternative party to pursue my political ambition,” he said.
“Confronted by the frustration aforesaid, that characterised the proceeding before the federal high court, my counsel further advised me that since ADC is leaderless and with the implication of not having a validly elected national chairman and national secretary respectively to sign my nomination form, which is mandatory by law before one can become a valid candidate, I should seek for an alternative platform to pursue my political ambition.
“It was then the mission of ADC coalition was clear to me that their intention was not to grow the party, but to ensure people like me who have been contesting on the platform of African Democratic Congress since 2019, without defecting to any political party and had been winning when ADC was relatively unknown and do not have a political platform, to achieve my political ambition but they have failed, I have since moved on.”
Abejide said the ADC was “unlawfully hijacked by politicians” who were chased out of political parties they could not manage.
The lawmaker said he nurtured and funded the ADC from when it was unpopular till it became a known platform.
“I funded the party structure as the national leader of the party, which I have willingly relinquished to the current national chairman, Hon Nafiu Bala, and I wish him good luck as he continues to fight for his rights in court,” he said.
“I wish to state that I have willingly and voluntarily exited and had since extinguished my membership of ADC by constitutional method permitted under the ADC constitution.
“Let me put on record that I was not in ADC to scatter the party I laboured more abundantly to build, contrary to the video going viral where Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, chief of staff to the president, advised me to stay in ADC, contest my re-election and fight for my rights and scatter the political marauders from the party.
“The party hijackers are the ones who came to scatter all the people they met on the ground by expelling this or that person without recourse to the constitution of the party.”
The David Mark-led faction of the ADC and Bala Nafiu, a former national vice-chairman of the party, have been laying claim to its leadership.
However, on Thursday, the supreme court directed Mark to return to the federal high court for the hearing and determination of issues arising from the leadership dispute within the ADC.
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