The National Working Committee of the Accord Party has dismissed the purported suspension of its National Chairman, Maxwell Mgbudem, describing the move by a splinter faction as “laughable” and the handiwork of “political jobbers seeking relevance.” In a statement issued on Friday, the party said the claim—announced at a stakeholders’ meeting in Keffi, Nasarawa State—was spearheaded by former presidential candidate Chris Imumolen, whom the party insists “had long been expelled.”