By Kingston Magare 1.4.2026
Nigeria’s main opposition party the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has alleged that the ruling party is planning to create crisis within its fold by hiring a crowd to heckle its national chairman David Mark out of office.
According to ADC national publicity secretary Bolaji Abdulahi, the crowd rented by the All-Progressive Congress will pose as aggrieved members on April 2, to demand for the removal of Senator Mark.
Mr. Abdullahi also stated that the APC is pressuring the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to plant landmines for the ADC, following Rabiu Kwankwaso’s decision to join the ADC.
“Yesterday, we disclosed a sinister plot by agents of the ruling APC government to pressure INEC into taking illegal action to destabilise our party, following the milestone movement of H.E. Rabiu Kwankwaso to the ADC,” Abdullahi, said in a statement on Wednesday.
“Information reaching us this morning is that a public protest is being planned for tomorrow, Thursday, 2nd April, in Abuja, sponsored by a particularly notorious minister.
“Their expectation is that a protest will give oxygen to a case that is already suffocating in the courts under the weight of its own illegality.”
“The plan is simple: a paid crowd, posturing as aggrieved party members, will take to the streets demanding ‘David Mark Must Go.’
“This, they hope, will create ‘public pressure’ on the INEC chairman to magically upgrade and recognise an individual who resigned his position and was subsequently expelled from the ADC to the position of national chairman of a party he no longer belongs to.
“The plan by the ruling APC government to hijack the leadership of the ADC, the only viable opposition party left in the country, is real. If anything, it has assumed a new level of desperation in the past few days. They are not just afraid of our momentum.”