By Joshua Tosin Ogunsakin 
A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed a hearing for Monday in a suit challenging, among others, the legitimacy of the David Mark-led leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Justice Emeka Nwite chose the date in a ruling on September 4 in which he refused to grant an ex parte motion filed by Nafiu-Bala Gombe, a former Deputy National Chairman of ADC, and moved by his lawyer, Michael Agber.
Justice Nwite ordered Gombe to serve the motion on the respondents – Mark and others – to enable show cause why the motion should not be granted.
The suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025 has the ADC, Mark, Aregbesola, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and Chief Ralph Nwosu as defendants.
In the motion filed on September 2, Gombe is seeking three principal reliefs.
He wanted an order of interim injunction restraining the 4th defendant (INEC) from recognising the 2nd (Mark) and 3rd (Aregbesola) defendants as the national chairman and national secretary of the first defendant (ADC) pending the hearing of the motion on notice.
Gombe is also seeking an order of interim injunction restraining the 2nd and 3rd defendants and their cohorts from parading themselves as National Chairman and National Secretary of the 1st defendant, pending hearing in the motion on notice already filed and served in this matter.
He equally wanted an order restraining the 4th defendant/ respondent from recognising and or dealing with the 2nd and 3rd defendants.