By our reporter 2.4.2026
The All-Progressives Congress (APC) has denied colluding with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to foment a leadership crisis in the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC).
INEC on Wednesday said it would not recognise Senator David Mark and other leaders of the ADC following court ruling on the leadership tussle. The ADC accused the ruling party of pressuring INEC into making the decision.
But speaking on the issue APC national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, said Thursday the crisis in the ADC was its own making.
“As I’ve always maintained, we are only concerned about our level of preparation and the effort we are making. We’re concerned about ourselves. It is the opposition that is obsessed about what APC does,” Mr. Morka said during an interview on News Central.
“Even the most recent development that everyone is talking about, the INEC decision to derecognize the David Mark executive, that was utterly self-inflicted. APC didn’t do that. APC did not orchestrate the hijack of the ADC by that executive, we didn’t,” Morka added.
The APC spokesperson argued that the situation arose from what he described as a disregard for the ADC’s internal rules and constitutional provisions.
“They did that, completely ignoring the rule of law, ignoring the constitution of the party they were putting themselves into,” he said.
“The party had a constitution about succession. So, when you parachute into the party, you take over without reference to the constitutional stipulation about succession on how leadership is ordered in that party, this is the consequence,” he stated.