Ogun PDP guber candidate raises the alarm over plot by Kashamu group to change INEC list

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Hon. Oladipupo Olatunde Adebutu has raised the alarm over plots by the Buruji Kashamu faction of PDP in the state to smuggle an unauthorized list of candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Earlier the Spokesperson of the PDP Kola Ologbondiyan equally raised concerns over attempts by same faction to submit a list of candidates to INEC on Tuesday night but for the right observation of the legal adviser of the electoral body who rejected the list because it was not endorsed by neither does the National Chairman or the Secretary of PDP.

Speakung on Wednesday at the Headquarters of the PDP during a media briefing, the candidate who currently represent Ikenne/Shagamu/Remo North in the Federal House of Representatives said that the National Caretaker Chairman of PDP dissolved all the parallel state executives in the state in a National convention

and later reconstituted it and after an election which was monitored by the National Executives, but a faction led by Senator Buruji Kashamu refused to abide by the wish of the party and have continued to run parallel administration.

He said that 40 candidates emerged from the congress organised by the state chapter of the party but was worried that a faction that never held a Congress is making attempts to submit list of candidates to INEC.

He said, “The National Working Committee (NWC) set up election and screening committees, forms were sold, we participated in the primaries and 40 candidates emerged in Ogun state.

“But a parallel group printed some forms, sold the forms, held a convention and people emerged. If we allow this kind of lawlessness and people will stay in their rooms, claim they have done primary’s go to court and obtain an injunction and take it to INEC and it will be accepted, then there is trouble.

“The element of transparency is totally destroyed. The law clearly states that there shall be only one primary organised by a party.

“This is a deliberate attempt to make the opposition party the PDP a weaker party. We saw this in Edo, we saw this in Ondo state. The time we could have spent campaigning, we spent it on conflict resolution” he lamented.

He urged INEC and well meaning Nigerians to stand up and oppose these enemies of our Democracy.

On the efforts the party has made to vacate all the pending court order and unite the party towards the forth coming election, he responded.

“We have made attempt to vacate the court order but the process has been deliberately slowed down and in my view as long as it continues to linger, democracy continues to be in jeopardy.”

Collaborating the view, the National Publicity Secretary of the party explained that the same group went to INEC Tuesday night with another list but because it was not endorsed by the National Chairman of the party and the legal adviser at INEC jettison it.