A chieftain of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has
described ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo as a man who thrives on illegalities.
He also faulted claims
that Obasanjo resigned as Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party
to concentrate on international issues.
Kashamu spoke against the
backdrop of the comments credited to the former President at a purported Ogun
PDP stakeholders’ meeting held last weekend in Abeokuta, the state capital.
In a statement he issued
yesterday, Kashamu said the Obasanjo’s statement was contradictory “in
character, content and form”.
The statement reads in
part: “This man thrives on illegalities. His statement is contradictory in
character, content and form. Here is a man who told the whole world that he
resigned his Chairmanship of the BoT to concentrate on international matters,
yet he hosted and presided over a purported Ogun PDP stakeholders’ meeting
without the validly elected State Executive Committee (Exco).
“In spite of his
pretensions, by his conduct, he has shown that rather than be the father of
all, he is the big masquerade behind the crisis rocking the Ogun PDP. It is
befuddling how an otherwise elder statesman will reduce himself to a
Lilliputian and local politician. Like his contemporaries elsewhere, he is
supposed to be the rallying point for all Yoruba and a father figure for all
Nigerians.”
Kashamu challenged the
former President to point at what he did for the South-West, especially Ogun
State in his over 11 years reign, adding: “Now, he goes about throwing his
weight and over-bloated ego, hitting every object in sight in his desperate bid
to ram his wishes down the throat of genuine and respectable leaders”.
He wondered why Obasanjo
has continued to encourage illegalities and lawlessness within the the party by
promoting one Dipo Odujinrin and his co-travellers as members of the State Exco
of the party “when there are various subsisting court judgments validating the
Engr. Adebayo Dayo-led Exco as the ONLY authentic organ of the party in the
state.
The judgments of the
Federal High Court, Lagos and Ogun State High Court in Suit Nos FHC/L/CS/347/12
and HCL/20/2012, delivered on the 27th of April, 19th of June and 3rd August, 2012, affirming and
re-affirming the Dayo-led Exco still subsist.”
Besides, the party
financier said the various reports by the Congress Monitoring Committee of the
party said the congresses purportedly held on July 28 and August 4, 2012, on
the strength of which Obasanjo claimed to have produced an Exco for the state,
were a hoax.
Kashamu described the
admonition by Obasanjo that party members should abide by the party’s
constitution as diversionary, adding: “That advice should be for him
because he has been the one flouting the party’s constitution on orderly
transition of power and subservience to the Constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. One wonders what kind of advice he would be giving on the
international scene when he is the champion of illegalities.
What we are experiencing
in Ogun State is a return to the era of impunity and lawlessness which was
synonymous with the Obasanjo Presidency. And now, Olagunsoye Oyinlola is his
point man. But thankfully, no one is above the law.”
He urged all lovers of
democracy to rise up and prevent the breakdown of law and order in Ogun State
“which the actions of the former President might engender”.
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