Edo Accord Party seeks chairman’s probe

EDO State chapter of Accord Party yesterday called on the new national leadership of the party to probe the N40 million party’s fund allegedly misappropriated by its immediate past executive in order to reposition the party for future elections.

A statement yesterday by the state chairman and secretary, Samson Isibor and Festus Imade, stressed the need to audit the party’s accounts to regain members’ confidence, which they said, had dwindled in recent times.

The duo lamented that the party was before now led on ethnic and religious sentiments, describing as timely the removal of the former leadership.

Isibor and Imade wrote: “We believe in Rev. Isaac Adeniyi’s capability to reposition the party for positive results in subsequent elections. Rev. Adeniyi is a charismatic leader, very honest, forthright and a humble personality. We have absolute confidence in him to take the party to greater height”.

Adeniyi was last week appointed as caretaker chairman of the Accord Party by chairmen of the party in the states following alleged breaches of the party’s constitution levelled against the former leadership of the party.

The party leaders, in a communiqué signed by the chairmen of the party in Edo, Ondo, Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun and the National Vice Chairman of the party (South-West), Kayode Ojo, gave some reasons for the removal of the leadership.

The communiqué alleged that the former national chairman and his deputy purportedly “compiled lists of political appointees made up of their family members and submitted same to the Presidency. The statement of accounts showed the reckless manner money has been allotted.

“The national chairman and his deputy contravened Article 18 of the party’s constitution, which was why the party lost in the North in the just-concluded general elections. The duo could not deliver their polling units in their respective states, which raised questions on why they should continue to stay in that position”.