Rivers ADC Members Stage Protest Against INEC Over Leadership Crisis

Added: 2026-04-30

[00:00:00]Everything.

[00:00:46]We have the soft.

[00:01:08]This is sir. Hello sir.

[00:01:20]No, what he's talking about the content read.

[00:01:29]I will read it now.

[00:01:32]It's the same.

[00:02:04]Hold on. Hold on. You will soon hear from us. Just be patient.

[00:02:18]26 wearing the youth wing of the African Democratic Congress ADC issued 72 hours ultimatum of commission under the leadership has expired without compliances.

[00:02:33]Your failure to act has not only aggregate a aggregated public concern but has reinforced the participation of institutional bears consider overreach and deliberate overwhelming undermining of democratic laws by the commission for the advances of that the following fact remain incontrovertible on July 26 2026 the 2020 2 July 29 July 29 2025 ADC held the lawful neck meeting under the full supervision of neck. The meeting validly dissolved the provision provisions national working committee NWC and produced a new leadership led by David M.

[00:03:23]>> Calm down. Calm down. With the involvement of Rahul Arah as national secretary of the party and next duly received verified uploaded and recognized recognized his leadership on September 9, 2025.

[00:03:37]There was no dispute no objection to challenge a lawful process while the matter remained before the court. The court of appe directed the status quo antibellop may maintain the last contest position which clearly remain the leadership under senator David M.

[00:03:59]Despite these clear facts, INC has acted on letters and pending motions without judicial determination, assumed the unconstitutional rule of the interpreting court order, disregarded due process and its own verified record and engaged in actions that amount to institutional sabotage.

[00:04:28]Let's be stated clearly. INC has no constitutional authority to interpret court order. The responsibility lies solely with the judiciary.

[00:04:40]What the commission has done is done neutally done is it neutally its compliancity and direct assault on democracy governance. We hereby restate the escalated our demand of as follows. Immediate restoration of the duly recognized ADC leadership founders senator David Mark and Rahu ara in neck official port. A public apology to Nigeria for unconstitutional and partisan actions. Immediate concession of all actions based on letters pending motions or non-binding processes. strict abundance of constitutional limits by referring from interpretation court directives.

[00:05:28]Demonstrable commitment to unneutral independence and institutional integrity. The immediate recognition of removal of the chairman for actions that have public confidence in the commission following the expiration of the 72 hours ultimatum. We hereby formally notify you that ADC youth in collaboration with the concern Nigeria in civil society organization have commenced the peaceful and lawful occupation of INC offices nationwide across the 36 states and the federal capital. The action shall remain peaceful and constitutional continue definitely and is persist until the full restoration of the legitimate ADC leadership senator David Mark and Rahul Arab. This is not a protest of confidence. It's a necessary democratic resistance. We will not be silenced.

[00:06:25]This is bigger than that. This is bigger than the ADC. It is about the future of democratic governance in Nigeria. We therefore call on you to act immediately and restore constitutional order without further delay. Your straightforward.

[00:06:42]>> Thank you. Well done.

[00:06:46]OH, >> THIS IS OUR VOICE.

[00:06:50]>> We thank you for that and we pray that the relationship continues like that.

[00:06:56]So, you are all welcome to River State.

[00:06:58]We have heard your petitions and um we appreciate the way you codified it in an orderly way. I must tell you that this um your petition immediately you submit it to us will go to the right quarters.

[00:07:14]We will submit it to our honorable resident electoral commissioner and he will proceed to submit it to our headquarters in Abuja and I trust that the appropriate attention will be given to your concerns and we will get back to you through the national headquarters. I hope that suffices.

[00:07:37]>> Thank you.

[00:07:39]>> Thank you. Thank you for accepting our letter.

[00:07:43]The letter is not yet here. We just we have um >> the letter is here but this is our formal presentation.

[00:07:51]>> Okay.

[00:07:51]>> Where is the where the letter where is the letter?

[00:07:54]>> There's a letter.

[00:07:54]>> We just presented the letter now.

[00:08:00]So officially agency officially we have presented um our letter of protest, our letter of displeasure and um INC has received this. Please let's be patient. They have also acknowledged our letter.

[00:08:22]>> We have acknleded letter. My name is chief ambassador leader Samson the state chairman of ADC outgoing state chairman of ADC. Well first why we went to INC today was to express our displeasure over the attitude of INC that they have taken a position where INC now interprets the law take the laws into their hands they register our leaders. Now in monitored the neck meeting that brought in the transition of the new set of leadership led by senator David M and Rafulah.

[00:08:59]They monitored all the processes and only for to based on the appeal court judgment dregister the names of our leaders making it look like ADC as a political party is leaderless. It has never happened in anywhere in the world.

[00:09:16]So we went to INC today to submit a letter to express our displeasure over the attitude of INC because what INC is doing is to kill democracy in Nigeria and we are insisting that the INC national chairman must resign because he has constituted himself as an appetite of APC.

[00:09:39]So APC is a government that want to kill democracy in Nigeria. and the INC chairman has constituted himself in a manner that he is now aiding the government in power to kill democracy in Nigeria. If INC will not do the necessary thing by reinstating our leaders, we will continue our procession. We continue to insist that the right thing must be done. We continue to put pressure on Ink at all level until they do what is right. The truth is if I ink is compromised at this early stage it therefore means that there will be no credibility in the 2027 general elections and if Nigerians don't rise up to the occasion to speak and to insist that the right thing must be done at all time then we are going to have an issue where INC will say based on technical issues they will rig the election for the government in power. So we must insist that INet will do the right thing at all time and this is the time to do it.

[00:10:39]Arise and shine >> on behalf of everybody. Everybody, the whole leadership, our our overall leader, right honorable Chibbei, the distinguished Senator Andrew Chenu, the deputy national chairman south of the ADC, the state chairman, leader Samson and his executives, the incoming chairman and the executives, and all of you, all the leaders here. I want to say a very big thank you. Thank you. Thank you. There is nothing else we can say to you. In 48 hours, we called you all and you all came out. You have all been peaceful. We want you to remain peaceful.

[00:11:21]>> Some people said there's no ADC in River State. ARE THEY CORRECT?

[00:11:25]>> NO.

[00:11:26]>> ARE THEY CORRECT?

[00:11:27]>> NO.

[00:11:27]>> ARE WE READY TO TAKE OUR STATE BACK?

[00:11:30]>> ARE WE READY TO TAKE OUR STATE BACK?

[00:11:32]>> YES.

[00:11:35]WE ARE HUNGRY.

[00:11:37]>> YES, we are.

[00:11:38]>> We are angry.

[00:11:39]>> Yes.

[00:11:40]>> And we are tired.

[00:11:41]>> We will take River State back and nobody nobody will intimidate us.

[00:11:46]>> Nobody.

[00:11:47]>> They can go on air. They can tell everybody. They can call all the newspapers. They can do TV interviews.

[00:11:54]They can go to our communities. But they will not stop us from rallying.

[00:11:59]>> It is over. The times of intimidation is over >> reverse people. It is >> over.

[00:12:07]>> IT IS OVER.

[00:12:09]>> ADC >> ARISE.

[00:12:11]>> ADC >> ARISE.

[00:12:14]>> ADNC >> arise and shine.

[00:12:18]>> We thank everybody for coming and we pray that you all get back to your destination in one piece. Please continue remaining peaceful. Rivers people are in love with us. do not change the narrative. The state is going to be taken over by the ADC. Thank you.

[00:12:34]God bless you.