A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in ogun state, Sen. Buruji Kashamu has reteraited his resolve to contribute whatever it takes to make the party stable ahead of 2023 electioneering
Kashamu who said he is not willing to contest for any elective position again in the State stated that the party lost the governorship position due to Hon. Ladi Adebutu’s arrogance
The former lawmaker further maintained that the national body of the party should allow the party in the state play their politics locally without any interference, adding that it is the only Mechanism to make the party stronger.
“When we lost election, I have to stay behind to put my things in order because I lost a lot of money. Like for good four years, I have been fighting to put the party together while some people (Ladi Adebutu) on the other side are doing everything to break the party”
“At the end of the day during the election, I was at the law side while he was at illegality side with the national. When the law say it is this, they will say this is contrary to the law; we have to fight to the last minute when the INEC decided who to be candidate or not”
“But, believe me if it wasn’t because of Ladi Adebutu arrogance, there is no reason why we will not be in government of Ogun state today. But because of his arrogance and he believe he has arrived, he believes he can betray anybody like Engr. Dayo betrayed me”
“If you remember, it was our group that gave Ladi Adebutu ticket to become House of Representatives which offcourse he won with all the supports we gave to him. It wasn’t up to three months that he got there that he has started fighting with the structure up till today because he want to become a governor”
“He has never call me one day to tell me that he want to become a governor or for me to say maybe I don’t want to follow or support him. But, if he has never told me he want to become a governor and you believe that because your father is having money, the only to do is for you to use power of that money when me I myself I am not a poor person”
“For him to use that power of that money to betray me because my own best friend that you met with me, Fayose is now supporting you. Fayose use him (Adebutu) in other to destroy the foundation of the structure that was built in southwest. I refuse to be betray by him and that is why the problem continue till today”
“There is no reason for us to lose that election if it is not because of his continuation of his betrayal. We are in court and we both agreed that let us work together and anybody that win the case will take over later”
“Two days before the election, they deliver the judgment in Abeokuta, then he packed all his whole supporters to APM to go and signed agreement with APM. He took almost 50 per cent of our supporters to the other side, then he left maybe about 50 which I controlled”
“If he joined the APM and at the end of the day, they are still unable to win election at that time, why does he has to continue with this problem again. What makes him to think that if he succeed to get the structure from us that he will be able to win election when you fail to win the election when you join with APM the other time”
Labelling the former state chairman of the party, Engr. Bayo Dayo a betrayal, Sen. Kashamu stated that the action has further created a disparity between his faction and that of Hon. Ladi Adebutu, adding that the case is already in court.
“When it remain one month for him to leave that position, he decided to sell the structure to Ladi Adebutu and betray everyone of us. And that is why you have been seeing a lot of misunderstanding, lot of battles, we have been exchanging many words between each other. We have to leave that matter to the hand of the court because the Exco has taken him to court” he said
