--- title: "Nigeria's Federal High Court removed the leadership of the opposition African Democratic Congress… — africaintel — DecisionGateway" description: "statement by africaintel, recorded 2026-11-09 — verbatim quote and source citation." canonical_url: "https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1cc3d-4861-70c2-9aca-1aa3e68cf70c" meta: "og:description": "statement by africaintel, recorded 2026-11-09 — verbatim quote and source citation." "og:image": "https://dgw.tmarket.io/og.jpg" "og:image:alt": "White network of connected nodes crossed by a timeline on black" "og:image:height": "1024" "og:image:width": "1024" "og:title": "Nigeria's Federal High Court removed the leadership of the opposition African Democratic Congress… — africaintel — DecisionGateway" "twitter:image": "https://dgw.tmarket.io/og.jpg" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://dgw.tmarket.io/llms.txt) statementSaid on 2026-11-09 # **Nigeria's Federal High Court removed the leadership of the opposition African Democratic Congress and ruled that the nomination of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the party's presidential candidate is invalid.** A statement by [**africaintel**](https://dgw.tmarket.io/actors/01a1cc4d-01cb-7de6-992c-f636c9593825), said on 2026-11-09. Statements are as reported by the cited publishers — not verified by DecisionGateway. > *Nigeria's Federal High Court has removed the leadership of the opposition African Democratic Congress and ruled that the nomination of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the party's presidential candidate is invalid.* africaintelPublished 2026-11-09 [ Read source](https://t.me/africaintel/15850) [**africaintel dossier **](https://dgw.tmarket.io/actors/01a1cc4d-01cb-7de6-992c-f636c9593825) ## **Discussion** ## **Related claims** [**The Independent National Electoral Commission's final list of candidates still includes Abubakar, 79, as the ADC candidate with former Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi as his running mate.**africaintel · statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1cc3d-48b9-795a-8bad-8503b0a99a8a) [**The court dismissed the suit against Yobe APC governorship candidate Baba Wali.**Court · statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1ca03-ff12-7a56-80db-e675971c8462) [**Olusegun Obasanjo rejected US asylum.**punchnewspaper · statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1c9fe-ef38-759b-8255-e5edb71c8782) [**Justice Peter Lifu issued the ruling after a case by former ADC national deputy chairman Nafiu Bala Gombe, who challenged the appointment of former Senate president David Mark as interim chairman.**africaintel · statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1cc3d-487e-7cd9-939a-83bc84453456) [**Western Kenya politicians should not associate with retired President Uhuru Kenyatta.**Francis Atwoli · statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1d658-3534-7c3d-8c47-470506d89941) [**Political positioning is intensifying well ahead of Nigeria's next presidential vote in 2027.**africaintel · statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1cc3e-7297-7254-89c5-4a08c45b8fed) ## **More claims by africaintel** [**Teganya was convicted on April 5, 2019 on two counts of immigration fraud and three counts of perjury in Boston, Massachusetts.**statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1d352-38b5-719f-9684-8def9a0fc9c7) [**Teganya was sentenced in the US to 97 months in federal prison on July 1, 2019.**statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1d352-38aa-7be9-9d63-fd235c8051dc) [**Teganya was handed over to Rwandan authorities at Kigali International Airport on Monday evening and was subsequently arrested.**statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1d352-389b-7731-a1db-8a93f15f9571) [**The United States deported Jean Léonard Teganya to Kigali on November 9.**statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1d352-388f-7197-9369-e59eba49663a) [**Authorities did not say whether the group intended to fight for Russia or Ukraine, or identify the networks allegedly facilitating their travel.**statement](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims/01a1cc5f-38a4-7ede-9ad0-0c871afc7eaa) [All claims by africaintel](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims?claimant_id=01a1cc4d-01cb-7de6-992c-f636c9593825) [All claims](https://dgw.tmarket.io/claims) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@id":"https://dgw.tmarket.io/#website","@type":"WebSite","description":"Decisions, events and falsifiable forecasts from 4,000+ Telegram channels — every claim cited. 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