The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has cleared the air on the rigging allegation of one of its presidential candidates, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen.

Speaking during an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said they do not have any evidence to support or deny the allegation.

DAILY POST reports that Hayatu-Deen had announced that he would not attend the party’s presidential election results announcement, citing concerns over alleged widespread irregularities in the exercise.

Reacting, the party’s spokesman said, “We don’t have any evidence to be able to support his position or to deny his position because we’ve not collated the results.

“We’ve not noticed any pattern in the result, and we’ve not seen enough to be able to establish a pattern.

“Eleven states’ results have been received so far. We are still awaiting other results. Any moment from now we are going to start the collation.”

The Court of Appeal sitting in Yola on Tuesday affirmed Ibrahim Sadiq Dasin as chairman of the Adamawa State chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

The Appeal Court held that, contrary to the ruling of a lower court earlier this month, the state congress of the ADC held in April 2026 which produced Dasin and other members of his executive committee was valid.

Delivering its ruling on Tuesday, the appellate court granted the appeal of the committee that conducted the congress and, consequently, invalidated the verdict of the lower court which nullified the congress in the state.

The Court of Appeal declared that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the respondents’ claims, given the state of judicial decisions on intra-party disputes relating to congresses, leadership positions and internal administration of political parties.

DAILY POST recalls that the Adamawa State High Court in Yola had three weeks ago annulled the local government and state congresses of the ADC conducted last month, citing breach of due process.

Justice Ahmed Isa of the High Court had delivered judgment in a suit filed by Shehu Yohanna, the ADC state chairman, before the congress that produced Dasin, who challenged the legality of the congresses, stating that the proceedings failed to comply with established legal frameworks and party procedures.

Yohanna had also insisted that the congresses were conducted even after the State High Court ordered that they be halted pending its substantive ruling on the suit.

The lower court had later given its ruling nullifying the said congress, prompting the committee that conducted the congress to take its appeal to the higher court.