Nigeria: Gombe-Led ADC Unveils Timetable for 2025/2026 Congresses

The faction of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) led by its national chairman, Hon. Nafiu Bala Gombe, has released a comprehensive timetable and guidelines for the conduct of its 2025/2026 congresses and national convention.

The guidelines are contained in a circular dated December 30, 2025, and issued by the party's national secretariat, outlining a series of activities aimed at strengthening internal party processes and preparing the party for future electoral engagements.

According to the document, activities will commence with a meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) scheduled for January 5, 2026 followed by a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on January 7, 2026.

The NEC meeting is expected to deliberate on the filling of vacant positions in the National Working Committee (NWC), set timelines for membership registration and revalidation, and make preparations for ward, local government and state congresses.

The party disclosed that membership registration and revalidation would hold from January 2 to January 15, 2026, while ward congresses are scheduled for January 17. Issues arising from the ward congresses will be addressed between January 19 and 22.

Local government congresses are slated for January 24, while state executive committee congresses will take place on January 31, 2026. Matters arising from the state congresses are to be treated between February 2 and 5, 2026.

The National Working Committee convention has been fixed for February 13 to 15, 2026.

According to the guidelines, approved delegates to the state congresses include local government chairmen and secretaries, youth and women leaders, state executive committee members, NEC members from the state, persons with disabilities (PWD) leaders, ex-officio members, elected council chairmen and their deputies, Board of Trustees members, zonal national officers, elected members of the National and State Assemblies, and legal advisers.

The party directed all states to constitute Congress Planning Committees, noting that members of such committees must not be aspirants for any state executive position.

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