Dr. Isibor.
All may not be well after all with the Accord Party as Dr Samson Isibor who is claiming to be the National Secretary of the Party, has dragged the national chairman of the party, Lawal Nalado to the Federal High Court in Benin City seeking an interlocutory injunction to stop him from continuing as the national chairman of the party.
His offence according to Dr Isibor is that Nalado was holding other public offices which negates the party’s constitution that bars the national chairman from holding any other public office.
The suit, no FHC/B/CS/11/16, which comes up Tuesday, December 13, 2016, has the Accord Party and Dr Samson Isibor as plaintiffs and Lawal Nalado, Mr Nureni Adisa and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as Defendants. He alleged that Nalado contravenes Section 24 (9) of the constitution of the party.
Isibor alleged that by the constitution, Nalado ceased to be National Chairman of the party when he was appointed by former president, Goodluck Jonathan as Chairman, Governing Council of the Federal Polytechnic, Kaura Namoda in 2013.
“We are asking the Federal High Court to grant us perpetual injunction to restrain Nalado from further parading himself as the National Chairman of Accord Party pending the determination of the substantive suit” he said in a statement issued in Benin City Monday.
He claimed that Nalado had in the recent past been dragged to the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) over alleged financial impropriety. “He has caused a lot of disaffection in the party which affected the chances of the party winning any election conducted by INEC because there were so many factions in the party.
