Oladimeji RamonThe Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate in Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu, has accused the party’s National Chairman, Uche Secondus, of trying to blackmail the Independent National Electoral Commission to drop his (Kashamu’s) name for that of Ladi Adebutu. While the Secondus-led national PDP prefers Adebutu, INEC has accepted and published Kashamu’s name as Ogun PDP governorship candidate on the final list of candidates for the forthcoming general elections. In a statement by his media aide, Austin Oniyokor, Kashamu condemned a letter, he said, was written by Secondus to INEC, asking that Kashamu’s name be substituted with that of Adebutu. He described Secondus’ letter as one that “drips with the usual lies and blackmail that you have always peddled to obfuscate obvious facts and issues that are glaringly in the public domain.”He reiterated that his recognition by INEC as the PDP governorship candidate for Ogun State was based on judgements of the Federal High Court. Kashamu said, “The indubitable fact is that the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos had on the 24th of June, 2016, delivered a judgement in which it directed the PDP and INEC to deal exclusively with the Engineer Adebayo Dayo-led Ogun State PDP Executive.

Source: Punch February 06, 2019 16:30 UTC