Buruji Kashamu, senator
representing Ogun east, has rejected his expulsion from the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).
The party’s national executive
council (NEC) announced the expulsion of the senator — and three other members
of the party in Ogun — after its meeting in Abuja on Monday.
The party did not give any reason
for the action.
Reacting to the development via a
statement, Kashamu said he remains a member of the PDP “whether anybody likes
or not.”
He said the party did not follow
due process in expelling him.
“It is clear from the ill-advised
decision that the Prince Uche Secondus-led national working committee is lawless
and undemocratic,” he said.
“No due process was followed as
enshrined in the constitution of the party. Since the initial 30-day suspension
lapsed on the 9th of January, 2018, they do not have any right to take 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 of defending himself shall be null and void.”
Kashamu also said there are no
less than two suits pending before an Abuja high court challenging his initial
suspension.
The senator said the judge, in
one of the cases, had ordered parties involved to “maintain the status quo.”
“Despite all these, if such an
irrational decision was allegedly taken, the expulsion cannot stand,” he said.
“It does not have anything to do
with me or any of my associates. It is instructive that the federal high court
as per the Honourable Justice I.N. Buba on the 24th June, 2016, granted an
order which the PDP from impeding the functions of the Engr. Adebayo Dayo-led
Ogun state PDP exco “until the four years tenure to which they have been
elected is spent (i.e. the state exco is to remain in office until 2020).
“Therefore, the purported
expulsion cannot stand in the face of the 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 also threatened to expose “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.”
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