BREAKING: ADC Files Suit to Bar Senator Ireti Kingibe from Claiming Membership

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the Federal Capital Territory has approached the Federal High Court to prevent Senator Ireti Kingibe from presenting herself as a member of the party.

The legal action comes just 48 hours after Kingibe was indefinitely suspended by the Wuse Ward Executive Committee.

Filed by the party’s lawyer, Maxwell Opara, the suit seeks a judicial declaration affirming that the Wuse Ward Executive Committee has the authority to discipline and suspend party members within its jurisdiction.

The ADC also wants the court to confirm that Kingibe’s suspension remains valid.

The plaintiffs, Okezuo Godfrey Kanayo, Chairman of the ADC in Wuse Ward, and Isaiah Ojonugwa Samuel, filed the case on behalf of the ward committee and themselves.

They are asking the court to declare that, while suspended, Kingibe cannot legally claim membership or present herself as a card-carrying member of the ADC.

The suit further requests that the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) be barred from recognising Kingibe as a member at any level during her suspension and seeks validation of the ward committee’s decision to suspend her.

The case, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/539/2026, cites Sections 6(6)(b) and 251 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), Article 16 of the ADC Constitution, and the Federal High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 2019.

The plaintiffs also invoked the court’s inherent powers to interpret and enforce party constitutions.

At the time of filing, the matter had not yet been assigned to a judge.