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BREAKING: ADC drags Ireti Kingibe to court over party membership after suspension
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has approached the Federal High Court of Nigeria in Abuja seeking an order to stop Ireti Kingibe from presenting herself as a member of the party.
The legal action follows the senator’s indefinite suspension by the Wuse Ward Executive Committee, which was announced just 48 hours earlier.
In the suit filed at the court, the party, through its lawyer, Maxwell Opara, is asking the court to declare that the Wuse Ward Executive Committee has the authority to discipline and suspend party members within its jurisdiction.
The ADC is also seeking a judicial interpretation to affirm that the ward leadership acted within its constitutional powers when it announced the suspension.
According to the filing, the party wants the court to restrain the senator from parading herself as a member of the ADC pending the resolution of the dispute.
The development marks the latest twist in the growing rift between the party leadership in the FCT and Kingibe, who represents the Federal Capital Territory in the Senate.
The ADC also wants the court to confirm that Kingibe’s suspension is still valid.
The plaintiffs, Okezuo Godfrey Kanayo, Chairman of the ADC in Wuse Ward, and Isaiah Ojonugwa Samuel, the ward secretary, 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 it seeks validation of the ward committee’s decision to suspend the senator.
The case, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/539/2026, relies on 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 cited 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.
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