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<p>By Yusuf Danjuma Yunusa</p>
<p>An Awka-based legal practitioner, Chibunna Okoli-Akirika, has feared that the ongoing court battles and internal party squabbles may dismantle opposition political parties ahead of the upcoming General Elections.</p>
<p>He expressed his feeling in an interview with the News men in Owerri, describing recent judicial judgments as early warning signs of a looming wider political storm.</p><div class="a4VPWds4" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>Okoli-Akirika, a former Anambra Commissioner for Lands and Secretary of the Labour Party, was reacting to Thursday’s court judgment that sacked the David Mark-led African Democratic Congress (ADC).</p>
<p>“The court judgment, though of first instance, has in the interim expectedly devastated ADC in structure and decimated it in spirit,” he said.</p>
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<p>He said the court decision signalled looming political hurdles for the opposition parties ahead of the 2027 polls.Follow Politics</p>
<p>The lawyer advised that major political actors must not view the judicial outcome as an isolated ADC setback, but an urgent call to forge a broad opposition coalition.</p>
<p>He further warned against the fragmentation of the opposition political parties.</p>
<p>He highlighted previous disruptions targeting opposition interests in Delta, Akwa Ibom, and Sokoto States, alongside emerging controversies surrounding party registers in Kano and Kaduna.</p>
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“Furthermore, INEC’s public admission of the existence of officially invented ghost voters in the voters register is a pointer that all will be fair,” Okoli-Akirika said.</p>
<p>He argued that while key opposition figures face legal and administrative pressure, no platform remained completely immune from the political friction currently afflicting the ADC.Follow Politics</p>
<p>“Today, it is ADC, tomorrow it could be any other party or individual,” Okoli-Akirika said.</p>
<p>He said that sections 6 and 287 of the 1999 Constitution made court decisions binding, leaving affected parties with no choice but to comply, while appeals pend.</p>
<p>He urged frontline opposition leaders, who placed second, third, and fourth in the 2023 Presidential Election to “quickly fuse their structures into a single political bloc.</p>
<p>“What is stopping the fusion of the then second runner-up with the then third and fourth runners-up?” he asked.</p>
<p>Okoli-Akirika urged opposition leaders to put national interest above personal political ambitions to guarantee Nigerians a viable democratic choice during the 2027 polls. Nigeria travel guide</p>
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