"God Forbid!": Femi Fani-Kayode Derides ADC Leadership Following INEC Derecognition; Urges Opposition to Rebuild for 2031

Femi Fani-Kayode mocks the ADC leadership after INEC's derecognition. Read his scathing "rejected" comments and his advice for the 2031 elections.

By: AXL Media

Published: Apr 2, 2026, 7:21 AM EDT

Source: The information in this article was sourced from The Sun Nigeria

A Scathing Critique from the Ambassador-Designate

Femi Fani-Kayode, Nigeria’s Ambassador-designate to Germany and a prominent voice within the ruling APC, has delivered a blistering assessment of the leadership crisis currently rocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Taking to social media on Thursday, April 2, 2026, Fani-Kayode reacted to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) decision to scrub the Senator David Mark-led National Working Committee (NWC) from its official portal. He described the development not merely as a legal setback, but as a total moral and political rejection of the faction’s leadership.

"Rejected by the Courts and the People"

In a strongly-worded Facebook post, Fani-Kayode took aim at the stability and competence of the ADC’s current steering committee. "They have been REJECTED by the courts, REJECTED by INEC, REJECTED by their original founders and REJECTED by the Nigerian people for being erratic, unstable, unreliable," he wrote. The electoral umpire’s decision was based on a court order requiring the maintenance of the "status quo" pending the outcome of a suit challenging the legality of David Mark’s leadership. Fani-Kayode seized on this administrative suspension to argue that a group unable to maintain internal party cohesion is fundamentally unfit to govern a nation as complex as Nigeria.

Strategy for 2031: A Five-Year Rebuild

Rather than focusing on the upcoming 2027 general elections, the former Aviation Minister advised prominent figures within the ADC to temper their immediate ambitions. He suggested that the opposition should spend the next five years focused on grassroots organization and the formation of a "real" opposition party capable of fielding a viable candidate for the 2031 presidential election. "They can’t even form a party and hold it together yet they want to rule Nigeria? God forbid!" he added, echoing his long-standing skepticism regarding the current crop of opposition leaders.