Osun 2026: Adeleke’s defection attracting extra members — Accord Party

The Accord Party on Tuesday mentioned the defection of Osun Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, to its platform has triggered a surge in nationwide membership, positioning the social gathering as a big power forward of the 2026 governorship election within the state.

The Nationwide Chairman of the social gathering, Maxwell Mgbudem, disclosed this whereas addressing a press convention on the social gathering’s nationwide secretariat in Abuja to dismiss claims of factionalisation.

Mgbudem emphasised that Adeleke’s entry, alongside his political associates and supporters, has considerably boosted the social gathering’s nationwide profile and enchantment.

“Since His Excellency, Senator Ademola Adeleke, joined Accord alongside together with his political associates and supporters, our social gathering has witnessed large nationwide acceptance as 1000’s of Nigerians be a part of and determine with Accord throughout the nation, a testomony to Governor Adeleke’s political affect and nationwide enchantment.

“He has attracted quite a few Nigerians to Accord, which has positioned the social gathering on the forefront of our democratic course of,” he added.

The social gathering chairman additionally highlighted that the social gathering’s former presidential candidate, Christopher Imumolen, stays expelled, accusing him of spreading misinformation and impersonating social gathering management for political relevance.

In keeping with Mgbudem, the social gathering’s rising recognition had attracted the eye of political opportunists, singling out Imumolen, whom he described as an expelled member searching for to usurp positions inside the social gathering.

“It’s this superb progress and recognition of the social gathering nationwide that our expelled former presidential candidate, Christopher Imumolen, needs to steal a match by arrogating to himself a celebration place he by no means had, was by no means appointed to, nor elected to, a mirage that exists in his fruitful creativeness,” he mentioned.

The Accord chairman mentioned it had turn out to be essential to handle what he described as “pretend information and propaganda” following Imumolen’s latest media appearances during which he allegedly claimed to be the social gathering chairman and introduced one other governorship candidate for Osun State.

Describing the claims as baseless, he mentioned, “It’s laughable and a joke taken too far in making a mockery of our nation’s hard-earned democracy. It’s a hallucination of the worst order and an insult to the sensibilities of the nice individuals of Osun State, after witnessing the emergence of Governor Adeleke because the duly nominated candidate of Accord within the governorship major monitored by INEC and extensively lined by the media.”

Reiterating the social gathering’s inner cohesion, Mgbudem mentioned Accord remained united and targeted on the upcoming elections.

“I state categorically that Accord is essentially the most peaceable, steady, united, progressive, and quickest rising political social gathering in Nigeria right now. Accord has no faction in any respect ranges of management,” he mentioned.

The chairman warned that the social gathering wouldn’t be distracted by what he described as political jobbers and “anti-democratic and reactionary forces” searching for “low cost publicity and abdomen infrastructure for private aggrandisement.”