Five state chairmen of African Democratic Congress (ADC) yesterday filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the takeover of the party by a coalition of opposition elements.
The state chairmen are contesting the process through which the Senator David Mark-led group assumed control and the stance taken by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the matter.
A former presidential candidate of the party, Dumebi Kachikwu, announced this while addressing reporters yesterday in Abuja. 
The former presidential candidate alleged that the coalition members were offering bribes to the ADC state chairmen to relinquish their positions for the new entrants.
“Some of the state chairmen are being offered as much as N20 million to step down. But even if they succeed, our constitution does not allow them to assume those positions,” he said.
Kachikwu insisted that the ADC remained a platform for fresh ideas and younger leadership, not a political retirement home for those he called failed elite.
