ADC Ready For Long Legal Battle – Abdullahi

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said it is ready for a lengthy legal battle in its ongoing court cases over the party’s leadership tussle.

This was stated on Friday by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi, during an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.

Abdullahi was reacting to Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling which he described as a victory for the party.

“The ADC will celebrate its legal victory but will not lose focus,” the spokesperson said. “This is far from over.”

“You can celebrate a battle when you are fighting a war,” he said. You win a battle and you celebrate it well. That does not mean the war is over. This is going to be a long war, we’re prepared for a long war, and we’ve shown that we’re capable of fighting this war, and that’s what brought us to this point.

“This particular battle, we won that yesterday and we are not going to allow anyone to minimise the importance of what we have achieved. “We want our members to enjoy that victory of that particular battle, but the war is still on and we are not going to lose focus that it is a marathon, so we are going to keep fighting.”

He said, “The ADC accepts the rulings of the Supreme Court and is ready to return to the Federal High Court as directed by the apex court.

He praised the justices for what he called the thoroughness of their submissions.

“Anyone who has sat through the proceedings and heard the submissions of the justices would acknowledge the thoroughness of their work,” he said.

The party is still confident of its case at the federal high court, he said.

“In the case that let’s go back to the high court, we are very confident that we have a very clear case, and the issue is about leadership,” Bolaji stated. “It is very clear and established that everything that has to do with the leadership of a political party is not justiciable.”

The ADC chieftain said the party was confident in the legal system but would continue to pursue all lawful avenues where it felt it had been treated unfairly.

“Where we find that we have been treated unfairly in accordance with the law, we are going to explore opportunities to seek redress, and we will continue to do so like we have in this case up to the highest court of the land,” he said. That’s what the laws are for.

“If a judge rules against us in court and we are not happy, we go to the next level until God says it is okay because after the Supreme Court, there is no next level.”