Otunba Gbenga Daniel
No fewer than 700 delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party from Ogun-East senatorial district, on Sunday, rejected the plan by the party’s National Working Committee to replace the winner of the senatorial ticket, Buruji Kashamu, with the former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
They expressed this displeasure during the district’s senatorial meeting in Ijebu Igbo.
Led by their chairmen from all the nine local government councils making up the senatorial district, the delegates insisted that Kashamu, who is the Chairman, Mobilisation and Organisation of the PDP in the South-West, won the ticket and that they would not tolerate any substitution.
It will be recalled that Kashamu and Daniel had contested for the senatorial ticket of the Ogun-East senatorial district, which was won by Kashamu. Daniel allegedly withdrew from the race two days to the primary.
The chairmen noted that any attempt to replace Kashamu with Daniel or any other person would spell doom for the PDP.
A leader in the party, Solomon Osinbajo, who countered the planned move by the party in Abuja to substitute Kashamu with Daniel, urged the state chairman, Adebayo Dayo, to forward their complaints to the national body.
In his response, Dayo confirmed that there were moves to substitute Kashamu’s name with Daniel’s, whom he said did not participate in the primary which produced Kashamu.
He said, “The former governor had written my office to withdraw from the race two days to the primaries. There is no way the choice of the delegates would be changed.”
Kashamu said that the party’s leadership in Abuja came up with a list tagged ‘Unity List’, which he said would lead to imposition and cause a lot of problems.
Meanwhile, there were fears over the weekend that supporters of a former Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, were planning to defect to other political parties.
Our correspondent gathered that this might not be unconnected with the alleged failure of the national leadership of PDP to put its feet down over its directive that the December 8, 2015 governorship primary in Ogun State was illegal.
The leadership went ahead last Friday and upheld the primary which was won by Gboyega Isiaka.
Only three governorship aspirants participated while nine others stayed away.
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