The National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Senator David Mark, and the National Secretary of the party, Rauf Aregbesola, have kicked against a fresh attempt by a chieftain of the party, Nafiu Bala Gombe, to amend claims in the leadership suit filed against them.
Mark and Aregbesola urged Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja not to allow the proposed amendments to the allegations against them, arguing that doing so would lead to a miscarriage of justice.
At the resumed hearing of the case on Tuesday, Nafiu Gombe, a former Deputy National Chairman of the ADC, through his counsel, Lukman Fagbemi (SAN), moved an application seeking amendments to the originating summons he filed against the ADC, Mark, Aregbesola, and others, challenging the emergence of the defendants as new national officers of the party.
Describing it as the third amendment, Gombe insisted that he had the right under the law to make any amendments necessary to ensure justice in his suit.
The plaintiff predicated the proposed amendments on eight grounds and a six-paragraph affidavit, maintaining that the law backed his decision as long as judgment had not been delivered in the matter.
However, David Mark, represented by Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr. Suleiman Umar, vehemently opposed the application on several grounds.
The senior lawyer argued that the parties had already joined issues and that granting the proposed amendments would give the plaintiff an undue and undeserved advantage after seeing the strength of the defence already
