‘Accord party chairman has been removed’

Crisis in the Accord Party appeared to have deepened on Tuesday as party officers continued to denounce one another. Reacting to allegations of impersonation leveled against him by the National Chairman, Alhaji Mohammed Nalado, the National Secretary of the party, Dr. Samson Isibor, said the former had been removed from office and he should stop parading himself as the national chairman.
Isibor, in a statement in Benin, Edo State, said Nalado was removed by over two-third of National Executive Council members at a session presided over by the party’s Board of Trustees chairman, Chief Augustine Maize, in 2011.
Nalado, on Monday, accused Isibor of impersonation, warning that anybody who transacted business with the latter as secretary of the party “is on his own.” He referred to Isibor as former chairman of AP in Edo State.
“He is parading himself as the General Secretary of the Accord Party, but we don’t have such position. What we have is national secretary. We have ignored him for too long, but now it is time to address the issue. Isibor is not our secretary,” Nalado had said.
Isibor in his statement on Tuesday however countered Nalado’s claim,  listing Rev Isaac Adeyemi as party national chairman, among other executive positions.
Speaking from his base in Lagos, Adeyemi in a telephone conversation affirmed Isibor’s position as authentic.
Isibor’s statement read, “My attention has been drawn to a publication credited to one Mohammed Nalado, a former national chairman of Accord Party, between November 2009 and until July 29, 2011, when he was removed by two-third of NEC members comprising 36 state chairmen of the party and national vice chairmen of the six geo-political zones of the country.
“At the said meeting, which was well attended by all the NEC members from all over the country and that took place at the party national headquarters in Abuja, several allegations were leveled against Nalado and his ex-executive council members.
“Nalado was confused when he mentioned one Nureni Adisa as his national secretary, down the statement he called him national chairman. Which one do we believe?”