End game for Kashamu in Ogun PDP?
The crisis rocking the Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party has taken a new dimension. The Buruji Kashamu faction has lost control of the party structure to the Ladi Adebutu group.The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State has taken a new twist. Senator Buruji Kashamu has lost control over the party, following the exit of the party Chairman, Chief Bayo Dayo, from Kashamu group. He has joined the Ladi Adebutu faction.
But, Dayo has turned his back against his former financier. Kashamu has since appointed the Assistant Auditor, Mr Samson Bamgbose, as acting Chairman. The group has announced the suspension of Dayo over what it described as anti-party activities. Observers say the loss of Dayo to the Adebutu group is the last straw that has truncated Kashamu’s struggle to remain relevant in Ogun politics.
Kashamu is not in the good book of the Prince Uche Secondus-led NWC. He was suspended in 2017 and later expelled in 2018 over what the party described as anti-party activities. But, the expulsion could not take effect as Kashamu sought protection from the court. His suspension was quashed by the court. The judgment emboldened him to contest for the governorship election in 2019. Kashamu emerged as governorship candidate of the PDP, despite the stiff resistance from the NWC.
But, INEC recognised the list of candidates that emerged from the congress conducted by the Dayo-led group. The electoral body explained that it accepted candidates from Kashamu’s camp “in compliance with a subsisting court judgment that pronounced them as right candidates”. INEC added that it recognised the candidates because their names were recognised by the courts.
Kashamu has threatened to fight Dayo to the end. He described Dayo as a bad leader and a greedy politician without conscience. The senator has also vowed to challenge the illegality and injustice within the ambits of the law and other internal mechanisms of the party. On the purported agreement by Dayo, Kashamu said: “Any agreement that he signed with anyone would not stand. Doing so after he was suspended for anti-party activities render the whole move a nullity. It can never work. When we get to that bridge, we would cross it. He is trying hard to justify the money he was paid to betray all the party leaders and executives.”
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