The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Senator Buruji Kashamu as a desperate paid agent of President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Senator Kashamu represents Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly on the PDP platform.
He insists he is the party’s governorship candidate for the 2019 general election.
A statement signed by PDP’s national publicity secretary Kola Ologbondiyan on Sunday, however, said Kashamu is an interloper and impostor, who would soon face prosecution for allegedly printing and selling fake PDP nomination forms to members of the public.
The party said the action is a “violation of the provisions of the Electoral Act and the PDP constitution, which vest such powers only on the party’s National Working Committee.”
It restated its statement last week that Ladi Adebutu is the Ogun PDP governorship candidate.
“Senator Buruji would also face the law for conducting phony governorship primary in Ogun state, with the name and colors of the PDP, an activity which only the National Working Committee has the powers to conduct and which it had done after which it submitted the name of our Ogun governorship candidate, Ladi Adebutu to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the stipulated time.
“It is instructive to note that under the Electoral Act and the PDP constitution, only the National Working Committee, and no other organ of the party at the national or state level, is empowered to submit a governorship candidate to INEC.
“This function has been duly carried out by the PDP national leadership, under the Chairmanship of Prince Uche Secondus, upon which strength he handed Ladi Adebutu, our party’s official flag,” the statement added.
The party alleged that it has “received reports from very high quarters that Senator Buruji has been under pressure from his benefactors at the Buhari Presidency, who reportedly reached a pact with him to destabilize and distract our party with a promise to let him off the hook on his pending fraud case, for which he is risking imminent extradition from Nigeria.”
