Nigeria, April 10 -- The leadership crisis rocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC) took a dramatic turn on Friday as one of the claimants to the party's national chairmanship, Nafi'u Gombe, ruled out honouring David Mark-led faction's invitation for reconciliation talks.

Mr Gombe's declaration followed a recent lamentation by former Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, who recently joined the Mark-led faction of the party, about Mr Gombe allegedly failing to show up for a meeting. Mr Kwankwaso, who spoke in a Hausa interview, said he waited for hours in vain for Mr Gombe's arrival.

But Mr Gombe, in an interview with BBC Hausa on Friday, said he would not honour any invitation to a meeting convened by what he described as "illegiti...