Nigeria, April 8 -- A fresh leadership crisis has erupted in the All Democratic Congress (ADC) as a bloc of state chairmen announced a takeover of the party's structure.

The state chairmen unveiled an interim national leadership and endorsed the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC) recent action against a rival faction.

At a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, Don Obinna, alongside 24 state chairmen and representatives from across the country, declared that they had assumed control of the party following what they described as a leadership vacuum created by INEC's suspension of the David Mark-led National Working Committee (NWC).

The group also disowned both the David Mark-led leadership and the faction linked to Nafiu Ba...