Things are indeed not rosy for Billionaire Politician who is currently serving as senator, representing Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu as his political followers were being chased away by those loyal to the newly elected officials of the party.

The newly elected executives of the People’s Democratic Party in Ogun State which took over the secretariat located along President Boulevard, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta around 1pm on Monday was led by its Chairman, Hon. Sikirulahi Ogundele.

It would be recalled that the new executive was elected on Saturday during the State Congress conducted by Electoral committee led by Mr. Eddy Olafeso, who is the Chairman of South-West zone of the party.

While taking over the party, Ogundele was also joined by ex-Local Government Chairmen among other prominent party leaders in the State. When our reporter visited the secretariat, men of the Special Anti-robbery Squad who were heavily armed were sighted watching over the building.

The Chairman who spoke with journalists excitedly said over five million naira secretariat equipment such as computers, fans among others have been vandalized and stolen.

We have only come to take over the PDP property in accordance to the directive we got from Abuja that, every property of the party which is mainly the secretariat must be taken care of and we have just come to peaceful take over the secretariat.

If you can remember vividly, I have once said it that at the appropriate time the security operatives will do their job and the taken over of the secretariat will be taken care of.

We the executives of the PDP in Ogun with the ex-Local Government Chairmen and other prominent party members have only come here to take over the secretariat so that we can move the party forward. The disgruntled miscreant that has been kept here before now has just been sent out.

No form of resistance, no problem. Infact, we came in singing and dancing, we have decided to run a decent, united and peaceful party and for those who are aggrieved, we would extend the hand of fellowship to them. We would call them and we would do it together.   We must just take over this State from the hands of the APC administration that is known for running a penny wise pounds foolish policy.

We have just inspected the secretariat and we have noticed looting and vandalization of party equipment at least about N5million worth of equipment has been stolen and vandalized. We are going to take legal actions against them but we are going to await the instruction of our national secretariat and proper legal advice.

We have promised the people of Ogun State that we are going to properly correct their misconception about PDP and we are not ready to run a disgruntled party.

While reacting to the development, Bolaj Adeniji who spoke on behalf of Engineer Bayo Dayo the sacked chairman who is loyal to Kashamu said: “We learnt of the invasion of the secretariat by the dissident group in Ogun PDP. You will recall sometimes that there was an ongoing case at the State Magistrate’s Court where members of the erstwhile caretaker committee were there for contempt of court for parading themselves as the executives of the party. After that, there was an order of the magistrate court that prevented the conduct of any congress in Ogun State and that the police and the DSS should arrest, prosecute and investigate anybody found gathering anywhere that would call themselves the executives of the party. And I think in defiance of that order, which is now the modus operandi of this dissident group, they went and conducted congresses on Saturday. And this afternoon, we learnt that they invaded the party secretariat with truck load of touts and chased away the staff of the secretariat and pretending that they’ve taken over the secretariat. It is impunity of the most sordid manner.”

“Definitely, the Engr Adebayo Dayo executive that has the statutory mandate between 2016 up to 2020 would return back to court to enforce its fundamental rights. We are going to challenge this; this cannot stand, it is illegality and it cannot stand. In the face of the constitution of our party, it cannot stand because there is a judgement of the Federal High Court that says that Engr Adebayo Dayo exco subsists until 2020. Also, a ruling of a Magistrate Court that says nobody should hold congress in Ogun State and nobody else should parade themselves as executives of the party in Ogun State. None of the judgement has been vitiated and therefore, none of these rulings have been appealed.”

“Therefore, what right does this group have to have invaded the secretariat in such manner and claim to be executives of PDP in Ogun State. So, nothing has changed.”

“Nobody resisted them. Our security men have gone for their weekend holidays and they were to return this afternoon. So, I think they were aware of that security lapse and that’s why they invaded the secretariat early this afternoon and took over.”

“When you have people whose modus operandi is lies and subterfuge. They can say anything. Nothing was destroyed. The secretariat is in good shape and all facilities in that secretariat remains except of course if the thugs they brought have looted the secretariat and we are going to count whatever we have left there by the time we return in 24 hours. I can assure that in the next 24 hours we would be back in that office.”

– Wale Adewunmi, Ogun State Correspondent