Accord faction threatens legal action over party’s confab nominations

BY OLALEKAN BADMOS

 

A faction of the Accord Party (AP) has kicked against the choice of Mohammed Nalado and former governor of Oyo State, Rasheed Ladoja‎, as party’s representatives in the upcoming National Conference.

It also threatened to take legal action if necessary corrections are not made before the conference take off.

In a statement jointly signed by Isaac Adeniyi and Samson Isibor, national chairman and secretary respectively, the faction described as self-imposition and a ploy by the Peoples Democratic Party to embarrass and divide the party the emergence of the duo.

"The National Executive Council (NEC) and the National Working Committee (NWC) of Accord Party (AP) at an emergency meeting held today (March 9, 2014), reviewed the purported self-nomination of the duo of Alhaji Mohammed Nala- do and Rasheed Ladoja as delegates to the proposed National Conference and resolved as follows:

"That Alhaji Mohammed Nalado and Rasheed Ladoja are no longer members of Accord Party, haven earlier been expelled from the party in line with the constitution of the party.

"We reject in its entirety the inclusion of the two in the list of delegates to the proposed conference as representatives of AP. Members of our party wish to state that the inclusion was done through the back door without due process and consensus decision and nomination of the party executives.

"Also, it amounts to a ploy by enemies of progress in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to embarrass the leadership and members of Accord Party by embarking on an exercise it will soon regret. Alhaji Nalado and Rasheed Ladoja are not and can never be credible representatives of AP to the national conference as they have since lost the integrity and followership of our party by their expulsion. We see the action of those who included their names into the list as the delegates as an attempt to cause division and crisis among our members and therefore should be ignored completely," the release read.

Nalado and Ladoja had been earlier announced by the party as its representatives at the conference billed to take off later this month (March).