Legal practitioner Liborous Oshoma has advised the opposition coalition to cut its losses and urgently seek an alternative political platform, warning that the ADC’s deepening legal crisis has made the party an increasingly unworkable vehicle for the 2027 elections.
Speaking in an interview from 19:44 on Channels TV, Oshoma said, “Even if the Supreme Court were to say, ‘Well, the status quo ante bellum applies from when the Nuhu Bala suit was filed in September,’ with this new judgment from the Federal High Court now also derecognising the David Mark faction, there is a different dimension to deal with altogether. This new judgment might still go to the Court of Appeal and then eventually to the Supreme Court. So it is another, bigger problem on their hands. I think the coalition’s best course of action now would be to look for a Plan B out of this situation.”
Oshoma stressed that the ADC’s legal troubles did not begin with the coalition’s arrival, pointing out that bitter court battles over control of the party had been raging since at least 2022 and 2023, with figures like Dumebi Kachikwu, Honourable Abejide, and Ralph Okey Nwosu locked in disputes over the party’s leadership long before the David Mark group entered the picture…Read_More…