PDP condemns Kashamu over allegations against Makarfi

Buruji Kashamu

PDP says it will take decision on Kashamu soon.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday, condemned the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Buruji Kashamu, for accusing the Chariman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, Ahmed Makarfi for some elections loss.

The spokesperson for the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, who said this in Abuja, stated that the party would take decisive action on Kashamu soon.

“The actions of Kashamu contributed to the loss of the PDP candidates in the Edo and Ondo states governorship elections. The party will take a decision at the appropriate time on Kashamu. It may take long but justice will be done,” he said.

Adeyeye also stated that its defeat in Anambra gubernatorial election was as a result of the rancor within its members in the state and not the party’s fault.

He noted that eight national chairmanship aspirants of the party signed a peace accord, promising to maintain the peace and cooperate with anyone that eventually win during the December 9 national convention. However, one of the signatories, Prof. Tunde Adeniran threatened not to abide by the promise he made while signing the accord.

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According to him, the party could not do anything about it even if Adeniran decided to back out.

“People sign peace accord but we have no way to enforce it. If they flouted it there is nothing we can do. It is a matter that we will continue to revisit from time to time.

“We were not involved in the drafting of the contents of the accord. The chairmanship aspirants themselves drafted it and brought it here. We only coordinated the signing. Therefore, we cannot force them to abide by the contents of the accord,” he said.

He therefore, dismissed speculations, that Makarfi and the National Caretaker Committee were manipulating affairs of the party in favour of their 2019 political interests.

Adeyeye therefore, urged party stakeholders from the South to harmonise their positions on which zone should produce the national chairman, stressing that failure to do that would mean that only the December 9 convention would solve it.