Ajibola Bashiru, the national secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to completely deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

The ADC secretary argued that the embattled opposition party has been unable to justify its continued existence.

Bashiru then posited that the electoral body should have gone beyond mere derecognition of the ADC leadership, which was being led by former Senate President David Mark, and move on to remove the party in its entirety from the list of registered political parties in the country.

The APC secretary made the comment while speaking at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, alongside Felix Morka, the national publicity secretary. He described the ADC as a drain on national resources and time.