I’m Still On Ballot – Atiku

Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has charged his supporters to stay steadfast, saying he stays within the 2027 presidential race regardless of Thursday’s Federal High Court judgment nullifying the social gathering’s management.

On Thursday, a Federal High Court in Abuja nullified the management of the ADC led by Senator David Mark and invalidated all choices taken by the social gathering underneath its management, together with his emergence as presidential candidate.

In a press release he personally signed on Friday, Atiku, who has continued his marketing campaign regardless of the judgment, mentioned: “I am in this race. I am not going anywhere. We will be on the ballot. No threat, blackmail or court manoeuvre will make me abandon you or the cause we share.”

While alleging that the most recent court docket ruling doesn’t mirror the desire of the Nigerian folks, the ADC presidential candidate added: “No manipulation, conjecture or concoction can erase our place in this contest, silence our campaign or deny Nigerians the right to choose their future. We are on the ballot, and the people must be allowed to decide.”

In a veiled assault on the ruling social gathering, Atiku mentioned those that boast of getting thirty-two governors and declare to have purchased, pressured or coerced leaders from different events into their fold should not have any cause to concern a free and truthful contest.

“Yet, instead of presenting their record to Nigerians, they continue to deploy every tactic available to weaken the opposition: political pressure, manufactured narratives, courtroom manoeuvres and attempts to compromise the voters’ register with AI-generated photographs, false names and fictitious identities,” he mentioned.

“These are not the actions of people confident in their record. They are calculated attempts to make genuine competition impossible and push Nigeria towards a one-party state.”

He alleged that the current administration had no file to defend earlier than Nigerians, saying: “This government removed the fuel subsidy overnight without a plan to protect Nigerians. It presided over the steep decline of the naira and allowed food prices to rise beyond the reach of ordinary families. Factories and small businesses have shut their doors. Our young people are leaving in search of hope, while bandits and kidnappers continue to hold communities hostage.”

“Look around you. Market stalls stand empty. Feeding your family has become a daily struggle. Fuel prices keep rising, and silent pain fills homes across the country. Those in power may want you to believe that your suffering does not matter. They may want you to surrender your future before you even reach the ballot box. Do not lose heart. Do not retreat. Your vote is your power, and together, we will take our country back.”

“We will resist with all our strength every attempt to turn Nigeria into a one-party state. Nigeria belongs to all its people. Our democracy must remain open to more than one party and more than one voice. If those in power believe in their numbers and their record, let us meet at the polls in a free, fair and credible contest.”

“Let me say this plainly: Bola cannot use the courts to escape the judgment of Nigerians at the ballot box,” he mentioned.

Coalition For Democracy Warns Of Escalation

The Coalition for Democracy has additionally raised issues over Thursday’s judgment, describing the event as a harmful escalation in what it alleges is a scientific try to weaken opposition events forward of the 2027 normal elections.

In a press release issued on Friday, November 6, 2026, and signed by Salihu Moh. Lukman on behalf of the coalition events, the group warned that the judgment, which it mentioned purportedly dissolved the Senator David Mark-led management of the ADC and invalidated its presidential candidacy, might have far-reaching implications for Nigeria’s democratic system.

The coalition cautioned that the event affecting the ADC at this time might change into the destiny of different opposition events tomorrow, amid what it described as a quickly shrinking democratic area within the nation.

According to the group, it had beforehand raised issues over alleged assaults on opposition supporters, obstruction of political actions and the rising use of state establishments in opposition to political opponents.

It maintained that Thursday’s court docket resolution had given its earlier issues renewed urgency, questioning whether or not opposition events could be allowed to take part meaningfully within the political course of forward of the 2027 elections.

While reaffirming its respect for the independence of the judiciary and the constitutional proper of aggrieved events to hunt authorized redress, the coalition pressured that judicial establishments should not change into devices for extinguishing political competitors.

“Those who seek to destroy the opposition in order to guarantee their own victory must understand that they are not merely threatening political parties; they are threatening the very foundations of the Republic,” the assertion mentioned.

The coalition additional argued that no democracy might thrive the place opposition events had been denied the chance to compete freely and provide Nigerians various political decisions.

It warned that the continued restriction of democratic area might have severe implications for nationwide stability, insisting that peaceable political competitors remained important to sustaining Nigeria’s democracy.

“The ballot must remain the battlefield of democracy. No political party should be allowed to achieve through institutional manipulation what it fears it cannot achieve through the votes of Nigerians,” the group declared.

The coalition additionally expressed solidarity with the ADC over its resolution to problem the judgment by means of the suitable judicial processes.

It referred to as on opposition political events, civil society organisations, the Nigerian Bar Association, organised labour, the media and Nigerians to unite in what it described as peaceable and lawful resistance in opposition to actions able to undermining political pluralism.

“Let it be known: the Coalition for Democracy will not stand by while Nigeria is reduced to a democracy without opposition, elections without alternatives, and ballots without genuine choices,” the assertion added.

“An attack on one is an attack on all. We will resist it together.”

The Coalition for Democracy emerged from the G100 Opposition Summit held in Abuja on August 31, 2026. It includes 9 political events: the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Democratic Leadership Alliance (DLA), National Rescue Movement (NRM), Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Youth Progressives Party (YPP).

The presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Peter Obi, has reacted, expressing shock over the judgment and warning that it might create uncertainty for opposition events forward of the elections.

“I have received with shock the news of an order by the Federal High Court in Abuja nullifying the emergence of the Chairman of the African Democratic Congress and all the actions he has taken. This is unsettling and surprising,” Obi mentioned.

“I do not challenge the ruling of the court. The court of law is constituted to determine disputes according to the law. My concern is that three months before a general election, it is in the public interest to have certainty. It is not good to have too many uncertainties about candidates and parties a few weeks before a presidential election,” he added.

Similarly, the Kwankwasiyya Movement, aligned to former Kano State Governor and NDC vice-presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, additionally expressed concern over the judgment.

In a press release by its spokesperson, Dr Habibu Mohammed, the motion acknowledged the constitutional powers of the judiciary however mentioned the uncertainty created by persistent litigation might have an effect on the flexibility of opposition events to organise and put together for the elections.

“Nigeria’s democracy must be built on political pluralism, institutional independence, equal treatment before the law and the protection of citizens’ rights to associate and participate in the electoral process,” the assertion learn.

The presidential candidate of the Action Alliance (AA), Faduri Oluwadare Joseph, popularly often known as Fadojoe, warned that Nigeria’s democracy is underneath risk if opposition events are weakened by means of extended authorized battles and political interference.

He described the Federal High Court judgment nullifying the management of the ADC underneath former Senate President David Mark and invalidating the presidential nomination of Atiku Abubakar as troubling, noting that its timing, barely two and a half months earlier than the 2027 normal elections, had raised severe questions on judicial independence, political competitors and the way forward for Nigeria’s democracy.

Fadojoe pressured that his response was not based mostly on social gathering affiliation, noting that he was not a member of the ADC however believed that an injustice in opposition to democratic participation in a single social gathering might threaten the rights of different opposition candidates.

“Let me state unequivocally that I am not speaking today because I belong to the ADC. I do not. I am the Presidential Candidate of Action Alliance (AA). I am speaking because an injustice against democratic participation anywhere is a threat to democratic participation everywhere,” he mentioned.