The crises rocking the Ogun state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party took a new dimension Tuesday night, 16^th August, 2016. Sources said that the senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kasamu allegedly led a team of hoodlums to physically assault Honourable Oladipupo Adebutu of the Federal House of Representatives at the car park of the Presidential Hotel in Port Harcourt.

According to sources, it took the intervention of some other party members present, and mostly supporters of the party’s Caretaker Committee Chairman, Sen. Ahmed Markafi who came to the scene and prevented what could have been a mayhem.

The two politicians have been at loggerheads over the control of PDP in Ogun State, which appears to be slipping gradually away from the vice grip of the senator.  Ladi Adebutu it was gathered had aligned with the Markafi led exco while Buruji Kasamu is believed to be the main architect of the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff’s legal battles to take over the control of the PDP, a situation which had put the Adebutu camp in very strong position to take over the party in Ogun State.

Most party stakeholders in the state are also believed to align with the Adebutu faction which they see as a final breath of fresh air towards repositioning the party.