High Court Rules Against Sam Sumana’s 2026 APC Leadership Bid

Former Vice President Alhaji Chief Sam Sumana’s chances of running for APC leadership in 2026 have been crushed, not by party politics, but by the strict rulings of the High Court.

The controversy over his eligibility traces back to his expulsion from the APC and the subsequent attempts at reinstatement. Although the party leadership under Ambassador Osman Foday Yansaneh and later Alfred Peter Conteh sought to bring him back, both reinstatements were invalidated by the courts.

Justice Adrian Fisher, in two landmark rulings in 2022, held that both the National Advisory Committee (NAC) and the Interim Transitional Governance Committee (ITGC) lacked the lawful authority to act on membership matters.