ADC Crisis: Nafiu Gombe’s Sponsors Identified

By Ayodele Oni

African Democratic Congress (ADC), chieftain, Nafiu Bala Gombe, has clarified that those sponsoring him are not members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) or those in government.

Admitting that he is getting assistance from outside the ADC, in prosecuting his legal matters against the Senator David Mark-led leadership, Gombe explained that his support is mainly from public-spirited individuals and Nigerians averse to the alleged injustice being meted out to him.

Abimuku Monday, spokesman to Bala Gombe, who spoke when he featured on Morning Briefs, a Channels Television programme, said: “Before now, they were saying these people are big weights and we are lightweights. Now, we are suddenly being seen as human beings.

“Earlier, we were seen as nobodies – as boys who don’t have capacity to challenge this in court. They say ‘Nafiu Bala does not even have money to pursue his case.

“They don’t find out who. They have forgotten that for you to seek legal actions, there are so many ways to go about it.

“It is either you use your own money or your personal relationship with people. Does it mean that somebody in politics cannot have his own friends or cannot have lawyers as his friend or cannot have other members of the society as his friends?

“These are not members of the APC. They don’t belong to any party. They are citizens of this country, who mean well for Nigeria.

“Nobody is scuttling the coalition. The fact remains that if you have a challenge, people will rally around you knowing it is a good cause you are fighting,” he stated

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had on April 1, 2026 withdrew its recognition of the Senator David Mark and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola leadership of the ADC and had their names deleted from its portal citing a Court of Appeal order directing that the parties should observe ‘status quo ante bellum’.

The ADC leadership had accused Nafiu Bala Gombe, a former Deputy Chairman of the party of being sponsored by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to play the spoiler role to pave way for President Bola Tinubu to emerge as a single presidential candidate in 2027.

Speaking on the development, Spokesperson of the ADC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi expressed concerns on how suddenly, Bala Gombe, who he noted could not on his own afford the services of a lawyer, is now living large, staying in a presidential suit in Hilton and now hiring more than three Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) to represent him – a venture that may probably run into tens of millions of Naira in expenses.