2027: Olawepo-Hashim sues Accord Party, INEC over disputed presidential ticket

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed July 14, 2026, for the substantive proceeding of a suit filed by an Accord Party chieftain, Dr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, seeking an bid compelling the enactment to recognise him arsenic its statesmanlike campaigner for the 2027 wide predetermination and guardant his sanction to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Hashim, who named Accord Party and INEC arsenic archetypal and 2nd defendants successful an Originating Summons, is asking the tribunal to find whether the party’s nonaccomplishment to upload his sanction to INEC’s information portal — contempt emerging arsenic sole victor of the party’s statesmanlike superior connected May 30, 2026 — violates the Electoral Act 2026, the Constitution, and INEC’s guidelines for governmental parties.

He is seeking a declaration that the party’s refusal to guardant his sanction breaches Section 86 of the Electoral Act 2026 and Clauses 28(1) and (2) of the electoral guidelines connected campaigner nomination, and wants the tribunal to bid Accord Party to upload and taxable his sanction to INEC.

In the alternative, helium is asking the tribunal to nonstop the enactment to behaviour a caller statesmanlike superior successful which helium would participate, should the tribunal diminution to bid submission of his name.

In an affidavit supporting the suit, Hashim described himself arsenic a registered and fiscal subordinate of Accord Party, and stated that helium sponsored the p...