Fresh details have emerged following the African Democratic Congress, ADC, crisis, as its founder, Ralph Nwosu, has come out to drag his former deputy, Nafiu Bala, over his sudden change of lifestyle.
Nwosu, the pioneer National Chairman of the ADC, spoke on Wednesday during an interview with Lagos Talks, where he talked about the leadership fight tearing the party apart.
He said Bala, who served as Deputy National Chairman, could not attend any meeting in Abuja in the past without first begging for transport money.
According to Nwosu, Bala would always wait for N50,000 to be sent to him for bus fare before he would travel down for meetings.
He added that after the meeting, the party would still have to look for money to send him back home.
"Before then, when I invite Bala for a meeting in Abuja, he cannot come until I send him either N50,000 to take a bus to come for a meeting, and so on. And he would not leave until we are able to also scratch out money to pay for his transport," Nwosu said.
Nwosu claimed that the story changed completely after Bala took the party's leadership matter to court in September 2025.
He alleged that from then, Bala moved into one of the biggest hotels in town and started moving around with security men and bulletproof cars.
"This Bala, he went to court in September; we concluded the process in July, and from that September, he started living in one of the biggest hotels; he started moving around with security. He got bulletproof SUVs, more than three, moving with security," he said.
When asked if Bala may have bought the cars because he was afraid for his life, Nwosu did not buy the excuse.
"Yeah, and then you can buy an SUV that is costing over N500 million," he said.
He begged me for N50,000, now rides bulletproof SUVs - Ralph Nwosu exposes Nafiu Bala