The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said it is prepared for a long legal battle in its ongoing court cases over the party’s leadership tussle.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi, made this known on Friday in an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.
Abdullahi was reacting to the Supreme Court ruling on Thursday which he said was a victory for the party.
“The ADC will celebrate its legal victory but will not lose focus,” the spokesperson said. “This is far from over.”
‘You can celebrate a battle when you are fighting a war,’ he said. You win a battle and you celebrate it well. That does not mean that the war is over. We are wary that this is going to be a long war, but we are prepared for it, and we have shown that we are capable of fighting this war, and that is what has brought us to this point.
“This particular battle, we won that yesterday and we are not going to allow anyone to minimising the importance of what we have achieved. “We want our members to enjoy that victory of that particular battle but the war is still on and we are not going to lose focus that it is a marathon, so we are going to keep fighting.”
“The ADC accepts the rulings of the Supreme Court and is prepared to return to the Federal High Court as directed by the apex court,” he said.
He praised the justices for what he called the thoroughness of their submissions.
“Anyone who has sat through the proceedings and heard the justices’ submissions would acknowledge the thoroughness of their work,” he said.
He said the party was still confident of its case at the federal high court.
“In the case that we go back to the high court, we are very confident that we have a very clear case, and the issue is about leadership,” Bolaji said. “It is very clear and established that everything that has to do with the leadership of a political party is not justiciable.”
The ADC chieftain said the party had confidence in the legal system but would continue to explore all legal options where it felt it had been treated unfairly.
“We will explore opportunities to seek redress where we find that we have been treated unfairly in accordance with the law, and we will continue to do so like we have in this case up to the highest court of the land,” he said. That’s why the laws are there.
“If a judge rules against us in court and we are not happy, we go to the next level until God says it is okay because after the Supreme Court, there is no next level.
