2027: Accord Party challenges suit seeking to disqualify all its candidates

Accord Party has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit filed by its National Secretary, Adebukola Ajaja, seeking to disqualify all the party’s candidates for the 2027 general elections. The party argues that the case is incompetent because it was filed outside the 14-day legal limit, without the required 21-day pre-action notice, and by someone who did not contest its May 29 primaries. It also says candidate nominations are non-justiciable internal party affairs and that the candidates affected were not joined to the case. Accord Party says INEC recognised the primary results and that party officials could sign and submit the candidate lists when the National Secretary was unavailable.