The senator representing Ogun East senatorial district,
Buruji Kashamu, has denied the claim by former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga
Daniel, that he sent assassins after him.
Kashamu, in a letter to the Inspector-General of
Police (IG), Idris Ibrahim, on Monday said: “The less-than-clever attempt to
link me with the alleged attack on Daniel’s residence is politically-motivated.”
“It is part of the grand plot by Daniel to subvert
the due process and the rule of law in the state where he seeks to foist an
illegal caretaker committee on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state
despite the subsisting and binding court judgment which expressly states that
the Adebayo Dayo-led state Exco-which I belong to-should remain in office till
2020.”
Kashamu said there was no better proof that the
petition was politically-motivated than his reference to the Supreme Court
judgment on the party’s national leadership crisis.
“The authentic PDP Exco in Ogun State under the
leadership of Dayo has the final judgment and orders in its favour that are yet
to be appealed, set aside or upturned. The orders and judgment are binding on
the Police and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who were
parties in the suit.
“This cock
and bull story of an attack is part of Daniel’s desperate bid to seek
relevance, revive his dimming political career and hijack the structure of the
PDP in the state.
“He merely wants to turn the heat on his perceived
political opponent and perpetuate the illegal caretaker in the state. He is
afraid that some genuine and concerned party members could resist the brazen
illegality and disregard for the rule of law which his actions represent being
the arrowhead of the illegal caretaker committee despite being aware of the
existence of the democratically-elected and the judicially approved state PDP
Exco.
“It might
interest you to note that as law-abiding citizen, instead of raising false
alarm like Daniel, the Dayo-led state Exco had written two letters dated August
14 and 15, 2017, to your office wherein your attention was drawn to the illegal
acts of Daniel and his collaborators and how they could threaten the peace and
lead to chaos in Ogun State, if not checked (The letters are marked Annexures 3
and 4). A careful perusal of the two petitions and the attached documents would
give you an insight into the undercurrents of this unfounded alarm.
“It was
therefore a surprise to me when at about 7p.m. last Friday, my attention was
drawn to the fact that Daniel, a known pathological liar, wrote a petition
against me, and the document was being circulated on the social media by his
cyber team,” Kashamu said.
The senator further stated that “I wish to emphasise
that Daniel’s allegations of an attempted assassination on his life and naming
me as the prime suspect are not only unfounded, spurious and tenuous but also a
product of his malicious imagination. I have been in Lagos State since the
National Assembly went on recess last month. I do not have a killer squad like
Daniel and my phone lines and call logs are available for scrutiny.
“Like he said,
it is true that we have had political differences since 2009 after working
together for some time. Even at that, not once have I been linked with any form
of violence. I prosecute my political battles in the court of law and the court
of public opinion which he acknowledged in his petition, albeit irreverently.
But, I can say without any fear of contradiction that the same cannot be said
of Daniel.”
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