By Luminous Jannamike
Embattled National Chairman of the Accord Party, Prof. Chris Imumolen, has insisted that the outcome of the Osun State governorship election will not determine who leads the party nationally, saying the leadership crisis is a separate legal matter already before the courts.
Speaking in Abuja on Friday, Imumolen said the dispute predates Governor Ademola Adeleke’s entry into Accord and the Osun election, stressing that the leadership of a national political party cannot be determined by the outcome of a poll in one state.
Imumolen said the legal battle dates back to 2024, when he and other claimants sued Barr. Maxwell Mgbudem and others at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. He said an interim/ex-parte order issued on August 29, 2024, in Suit No. FCT/HC/M/11850/2024, directed INEC to recognise him as National Chairman pending the determination of the substantive suit.
He said the order also restrained the defendants from parading themselves as Accord’s National Executive Committee and from conducting state and local government congresses pending the determination of the case.
