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Factional National Chairman of Accord, Professor Chris Imumolen, has said that despite the victory of Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke in last week’s gubernatorial contest, the leadership crisis in the opposition party is far from over.
Imumolen, who stated this at a press briefing on Friday in Abuja, charged politicians, stakeholders and interested parties to stop conflating the internal leadership dispute within Accord with the Osun State governorship poll.
Accord is currently polarised, with Maxwell Mgbudem and Imumolen laying claims to the national chairmanship position. Adeleke, who contested the August 15 Osun State gubernatorial election on the platform of the opposition party, was nominated by the Mgbudem leadership.
However, Imumolen, while stating that the leadership contest in Accord cannot be determined by the outcome of the Osun election, said the matter is in court and would be pursued to its logical end.
According to him, “even with the conclusion of the Osun election, the Accord leadership case will continue. It is therefore wrong for anyone to suggest that the outcome of the Osun election will automatically determine who leads Accord nationally. Accord is a national political party. Its national leadership cannot be reduced to the political circumstances or outcome of an election in one state.
“We shall continue to pursue the Accord leadership matter through every lawful judicial process available to us until the courts finally determine the competing claims and the rightful leadership of the party is recognised.
“We recognise the authority of the courts, and we will abide by the final judicial determination. But equally, nobody should ask us to abandon a legitimate legal process merely because an election has taken place in Osun State.
“We are not pursuing this matter because of Osun. We are pursuing it because the leadership of a national political party must be determined according to the law and the constitution of the party.”
