Admin l Tuesday, July 24, 2018
ABEOKUTA, Ogun, Nigeria – Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Senator Buruji Kashamu has condemned his suspension from the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), stressing that his suspension cannot stand.
In a statement, the senator said the Prince Uche Secondus-led National Working Committee is ill-advised, lawless and undemocratic. According to him, “No due process was followed as enshrined in the constitution of the party. Since the initial 30-days suspension lapsed, on the 19th of January, 2018, they do not have any disciplinary action against me. This decision cannot stand because article 57(6) of the PDP constitution says, any decision taken against a member who has not been informed of the charges against him or has not been given any opportunity to defend himself shall be null and void”, he said.
Besides, he argued that not less than two suits challenging his suspension are still pending in the various courts, which have ordered the PDP to maintain statusquo.
He argued that Justice I.N Buba of the Federal High Court of Lagos specifically granted an order on the 24th of June, 2016, barring the PDP from impeeding on the functions of the Engr. Adebayo Dayo-Led Ogun State PDP Exco until the four year tenure to which they have been elected is spent, i.e, the Exco is to remain in office until 2020, he said.
“Therefore the purported expulsion cannot stand on the face of rule of law. It is null and void. I and my associates are fully in the PDP whether anybody likes it or not. We will continue to operate with the law as PDP members, senator and EXCO”, he said, and called on Nigerians to watch out for the full story and history of Secondus and what transpired between him and the Adebutus on how they sold an empty shell of the Ogun State PDP structure to the Adebutus.
