The national leadership of the Accord Party has officially disowned Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim as its presidential candidate for the 2027 general elections, declaring that the party did not conduct any presidential primary or produce a candidate for the race.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by the party’s National Chairman, Maxwell Mgbuden, the Accord Party insisted that the widely publicised affirmation exercise that allegedly produced Olawepo-Hashim was not authorised by the national leadership and held no validity.
The clarification comes just days after Olawepo-Hashim’s media team announced his emergence as the party’s presidential candidate following supposed affirmation primaries held across several states.Mgbuden stated clearly:
“The purported presidential primary where he emerged as the ‘presidential candidate of Accord’ as widely reported in the national media was not conducted by our great party and has no effect whatsoever. It was a fanfare by his supporters, which should not be misconstrued as the party’s presidential
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