INEC disowns factional Accord Party gov main in Osun

The Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee in Osun State has stated it was not knowledgeable of one other main reportedly performed by a faction of the Accord Party within the state.

A faction of the Accord Party in Osun on Sunday reportedly held a main election that produced Bamigbola Clement as its candidate for the August 8, 2026, governorship ballot.

The train, held in Osogbo, the state capital, started with the accreditation of delegates.

A big contingent of armed police operatives was additionally noticed across the venue.

Bamigbola, the one aspirant introduced to delegates, confirmed his emergence.

“It’s true. We had our main, and I emerged the consensus candidate,” he informed The PidomNigeria.

Nonetheless, INEC’s Public Relations Officer within the state, Musa Olurode, stated the fee was unaware of the parallel train.

“We’ve monitored the one Accord Party main just a few days in the past. The report has been submitted. INEC just isn’t conscious of every other occasion’s main,” Olurode stated.

The PidomNigeria experiences that Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, final Wednesday, emerged because the Accord Party candidate for subsequent yr’s ballot.

Adeleke was the one aspirant in that main, additionally held in Osogbo.

Saying the outcome, Abdulazeez Salaudeen, Secretary of the electoral committee that performed the first, stated Adeleke polled 145 votes out of 150 delegates drawn from the state’s 30 native authorities areas.

5 votes had been voided.

“The electoral committee has delivered on its mandate. After voting and counting witnessed by the brokers of the candidate and the officers of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, having the very best variety of votes, I declare Senator Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke because the winner of the first,” Salaudeen stated.

Reacting to the factional main, the caretaker Chairman of Accord Party in Osun State, Babalola Akande, stated those that organised the train usually are not recognised by the occasion.

Addressing journalists in Osogbo on Sunday, Akande reiterated that Adeleke stays the duly nominated and lawful governorship candidate of the Accord Party within the state.

He stated, “This place is incontestable, irreversible, and firmly grounded in legislation, having emerged by due course of in accordance with the Structure of the Accord, the Electoral Act 2022, and established judicial precedents,” he stated.

He urged Osun residents to disregard the “distractions, that are the handiwork of politically displaced actors who, having been repeatedly rejected by the voters, now resort to impersonation, falsehood, and institutional sabotage in a futile bid to return to energy by the again door.

“We’re listening to that the particular person getting used for this goal is a authorized practitioner. That, to us, will make our job simple, as our occasion will cease at nothing however to report him to the suitable authorities, together with the LPDC.

“We subsequently make daring to state that any establishment or authority that accords recognition, safety, or legitimacy to such impostors or their actions does so at its personal authorized peril, because the Accord will promptly and decisively invoke needed judicial intervention to guard its constitutional rights, inside democracy, and the sanctity of the poll.

“For the ultimate time, and for the sake of emphasis, by advantage of the legitimate main election lawfully performed on Wednesday, tenth December 2025, Governor Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke is the only and legally recognised governorship candidate of the Accord in Osun State. No parallel construction, no impersonator, and no contrived spectacle can alter this authorized actuality.”