13th October, 2014
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta
The Chairman Mobilisation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest, Prince Buruji Kashamu has joined the race for the Senatorial seat in the Ogun East senatorial district.
The posters of the man allegedly on the wanted list of the United States flocked Ijebu Ode during the last Ojude Oba day.
The posters have also been seen in ,Ijebu Igbo,Ago Iwoye and Sagamu. A close aide of the PDP financier, who pleaded anonymity told our correspondent this morning via telephone that the man has dropped his intention to vie for the governorship seat and has resolved to contest for the Senate seat.
The source confided in PM News that Kashamu is out to slug it out with the former governor of the state and a chieftain of PDP Otunba Gbenga Daniel, who only recently defected to the PDP from Labour Party.
According to the aide, “Yes, my brother and boss is contesting for the senatorial seat from the Ogun East senatorial district on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.You know that he has paid his price and have done so much to make the party relevant, not only in the state, but in the Southwest. So, if he now steps out to offer himself for service, I dont think there is anyone that can stop him, not even the blackmailers or propagandists,” the aide revealed.
Also contesting for the senatorial seat on the PDP platform are Olaide Onanuga popularly referred to as (So Sure) and M. Ola Kukoyi (Ko Si Giri).
When our correspondent contacted the party chairman in the state, Engr Bayo Dayo via telephone to comment on the matter he was not reachable.
One of the state executive members of the party, who spoke to our correspondent in confidence confirmed that Kashamu is interested in elective position but declined to comment on whether the party will give him a chance to proof his popularity.
“I also saw the posters at ijebu Ode on Ojude Oba day and some people also confirmed to me that they saw the posters around other towns in Ijebu and Remo. If you recollect, his posters for the governorship seat was firstly in town but as we are concerned as a party, posters does not mean anything, it is those that pick the intent form and return it that we reckoned with as serious with their aspiration.
“I want to now speak to you not as a member of the party exco but as an indigene of Ogun State. It would be a great disaster for this state and the country at large if someone like Buruji Kashamu could be putting posters to contest for governor or senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Someone with a lot of cases hanging over his neck, someone with a questionable character, someone that countries have put on the wanted list, they even threatened Nigeria to extradite him and such notorious man would now be aspiring to represent Ogun at the senate?”
“It would never work and we will all resist it. He should go and clean his hands off all the cases against him. We will not allow what happened in one of the southwest states where someone in the prison was elected as a governor. We will not allow that to happen here in Ogun. He should rather remain at the backdoor as he has been doing rather than look for what will never be possible,” the exco member asserted.