{"id":3806,"date":"2026-10-29T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/alliance-with-tinubu-will-boost-accord-chances-gombe-coordinator\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:30:45","slug":"alliance-with-tinubu-will-boost-accord-chances-gombe-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/alliance-with-tinubu-will-boost-accord-chances-gombe-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliance with Tinubu will boost Accord chances \u2013 Gombe coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"59.710062893082\">\n<p>The Gombe State Coordinator of the Accord Party, Samuel Chuwang, says the party will seek alliances with other political parties to strengthen its chances in the 2027 general elections, particularly in areas where it may not field candidates.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Chuwang said the party would consider working with political platforms that offered the best prospects of electoral success, while maintaining support for its candidates seeking seats in the National Assembly and state legislature.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He made this known in a telephone interview while reacting to questions about the possible impact of political alignments involving Accord\u2019s national leadership and President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0According to him, the party\u2019s inability to field a governorship candidate in Gombe would make alliances necessary to remain competitive at the polls.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cSince we don\u2019t have a gubernatorial candidate, we will definitely look for the party that is more shiny and then support so that we would work in alliance with them,\u201d Chuwang said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0He, however, dismissed concerns that such arrangements would weaken Accord\u2019s candidates for the National Assembly and state House of Assembly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cYes, it will not have an effect. It will not affect them in such a way that it will be negative to the party, because it\u2019s a merger. It will also give us a chance to have wider recognition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#10647875757479647f625060657e73787e773e737f7d\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"d5a1bdb0b0b1bca1baa795a5a0bbb6bdbbb2fbb6bab8\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gombe State Coordinator of the Accord Party, Samuel Chuwang, says the party will seek alliances with other political parties to strengthen its chances in the 2027 general elections, particularly&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}