ABEOKUTA– The League Of Registered Political Parties, Ogun State Chapter has petitioned the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Gov. Dapo Abiodun on the flangrant disobedience of Senator Buruji Kashamu’s faction of Ogun PDP to the Rules and Protocol’s of NCDC on the containment of COVID 19.
According to LRPP press release signed by its Chairman, Comrade Oginni Olaposi, it started that the gathering which was masterminded by Senator Buruji Kashamu, out of what it perceived as a political desperation to inaugurate an ‘illegal’ executive exco of Ogun PDP and to hold on to the party structure at all cost.
Oginni further stated that “recognizing the fact that the Federal Government and Ogun state government concurrently declared total lockdown of the state to contain the spread of the deadly Corona Virus, It’s therefore a big surprise that Senator Buruji Kashamu was bold enough to instigate the forceful opening of Ogun PDP Secretariat for the unholy gathering and the Inauguration of the illegal PDP Executives led by one Mr. Bamgbose on the 8th of May, 2020”
“We hereby called on Gov. Dapo Abiodun to demonstrate to the whole world that the war against Covid -19 is without fear and favour by ordering the immediate arrest and Prosecution of Senator Buruji Kashamu, Mr.Bamgbose and other members of his illegal executives”
“It is also on record that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) through it’s Spokesperson, Mr. Festus Okoye announced the suspension of all political parties activities including Congresses and Convention till further notice due to the dreaded CoronaVirus . It is therefore criminal for any political party or any group of people to lay claim to any congress during this period of Pandemic to the extent of celebrating an illegal inauguration”
“If the churches and mosques could not open, why would the Governor of Ogun State allowed Senator Buruji Kashamu and his followers opened the PDP Secretariat and performed an elaborate function to the extent of inaugurating an illegal executives with pomp and peagentary without any challenges from the state government officials?”
“We hereby call on the Chairman of NCDC and all relevant governmental agencies that are connected with the enforcement and prosecution of lawless individuals who are clog in the wheel of the containment and eradication of this pandemic to ensure that those that gathered at the Ogun PDP Secretariat on the 8th of May 2020 for the inglorious inauguration face the full wrath of the Law”
Oginni however stressed that if the war against COVID 19 is to be won, there should be no sacred Cow.
