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Peace meeting to death trap: How Benue’s Miyetti Allah Chairman was lured, assassinated
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**”One Party State? ADC Sounds Alarm Over Court Ruling Against NDC Recognition”**
**”Democracy Under Siege: ADC Blasts Lokoja Court Decision as Opposition Witch-Hunt”**
**”Seven Months to Election, Opposition Already Bleeding: ADC Fires at Tinubu Administration”**
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**One-Sentence Summary:** The African Democratic Congress has furiously condemned a Lokoja Federal High Court decision reversing its earlier recognition of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, describing it as part of a calculated pattern of legal attacks designed to weaken opposition parties and inch Nigeria closer to a one-party state ahead of the 2027 general elections.
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Nigeria’s opposition is angry — and it wants the country to pay attention.
The African Democratic Congress fired back Saturday after the Lokoja Federal High Court set aside its earlier judgment recognising the Nigerian Democratic Congress, with the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, releasing a statement that pulled absolutely no punches.
According to **[the ADC statement](https://adcnigeria.org)**, this isn’t an isolated legal development — it’s the latest move in a dangerous game being played against Nigeria’s opposition ahead of the 2027 general elections, with barely seven months to go.
“Over the past several months, Nigerians have watched a disturbing pattern unfold. One opposition party after another has been dragged into avoidable internal crises through a succession of curious legal battles and administrative interventions. Our own party, the African Democratic Congress, has not been spared these disruptive attempts,” the statement read.
The ADC didn’t stop at diagnosis — it named the consequence.
“The cumulative effect of these attacks is unmistakable: they weaken the opposition, narrow the democratic space, and strengthen the hands of those already in power. This is not how a healthy democracy functions,” the party declared pointedly.
The statement escalated further, framing the battle as existential for Nigerian democracy itself.
“When opposition parties are persistently distracted by manufactured controversies and prolonged legal uncertainty, the real casualty is the Nigerian people’s right to freely choose among credible political alternatives,” it warned, adding that “this has not been the case under the Bola Tinubu administration.”
The ADC called on the judiciary to guard its independence fiercely, urged civil society and ordinary Nigerians to remain vigilant, and reaffirmed its commitment to resist what it described as attempts to reduce Nigeria to “a one-party state in all but name.”
Strong words. Stronger timing.
With the electoral clock ticking and opposition parties increasingly bogged down in courtrooms rather than campaign grounds, the ADC’s alarm raises a question every Nigerian voter should be asking — is the playing field being levelled, or quietly tilted?
FG summons FUTO VC who hired 24 aides three days after assuming office
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Plateau massacre:How gunmen killed my pregnant sister inside labour room — Grieving man recounts
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Real reason we murdered Ogun broadcaster – Suspects
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Yoruba Muslim leaders warn public against ‘fake imams’ association
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‘You won’t return home alive’ — Fulani man threatens Sunday Igboho over alleged plan to chase herdsmen from Kwara community
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