The Accord Party’s leaders have confirmed that Governor Ademola Adeleke was properly nominated and elected as the party’s candidate for governor in the 2026 Osun election. They also warned members who had been kicked out or were unhappy not to cause confusion among the party’s leaders or try to weaken the party’s unified position before the election.
Remember that Adeleke was the only person running for the party’s nomination, and on Wednesday, he got 145 out of 150 votes from delegates, according to The Nation.
At the same time, a group of party members at the national level, led by former presidential candidate Prof. Chris Inumolen, spoke out against Adeleke.
Pastor Victor Akande, the Osun State Chairman of the Accord Party, said in a statement today that Inumolen’s claim was false and that “he has been formally expelled from the party due to several instances of anti-party conduct.”
Akande said that the Accord Party is still Nigeria’s best-organized and crisis-free political party. He said, “The party values discipline and openness and holds democracy as a core value with no room for either godfatherism or political manipulation.”
He went on to say, “Hon. Oke Rotimi, the Spokesperson Forum of State Chairmen of Accord South West, said that the rumor going around that our National Chairman, Mr. Maxwell Mgbudem, Esq., has been suspended is completely and totally false.”
The full National Working Committee voted to support Mgbudem at the National Executive Committee meeting on December 3, 2025. There was never any kind of punishment for him, as has been widely reported.
After that, Akande denied the accusations against the party and its candidate for governor, Adeleke. He said, “Adeleke officially joined ACCORD on November 6, 2025, and the party recognized him publicly on December 9, 2025.”
“He won the ACCORD Party Primary on December 10, 2025, and was the only one who could. The NEC approved rigorous rules for the primary election, and INEC officials kept an eye on it.
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