2019 is just around the corner and not a few politicians are already warming up to position themselves for some of the juiciest political alliances ev
2019 is just around the corner and not a few politicians are already warming up to position themselves for some of the juiciest political alliances ever. However, there is bound to be some sort of verbal or even physical wars due to two or more political gladiators angling for a particular political alliance and that is what has happened in the case of Senator Buruji Kashamu who represents Ogun East Senatorial district and former Ogun State governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
The feud between the two has assumed an alarming and messy dimension with both men, Kashamu, specifically throwing caution to the wind in a verbal. The cause of the verbal war is not unconnected with the supreme battle over who controls the future happenings of the 2019 gubernatorial election in the state. Buruji Kashamu’s verbal darts are as reproduced below.
“Good day OGD. A fool at 40 will forever be a fool. If you think you and your foolish boys have taken over PDP in Ogun State, you are wasting your time. You and your boys do not even have what it takes to have it. If two giants at the national level fought and one lost, how does that translate to your victory in Ogun State that is making you with your foolish boys who do not know a thing to be rejoicing? You are a political jobber. You are involved in anti-party activities by anchoring Yayi’s governorship ambition. Yayi is of the APC.
“You also claim to be promoting Ladi Adebutu’s. Although Ladi has SDP in his pocket as his last resort, I wonder why he has allowed himself to be fooled by you who refused to give him a ticket during your eight year reign as governor. You goaded him to fight the structure that gave him the ticket to actualise his over 12 years ambition. Very soon, his eyes will be opened and he will realise that he had been dinning with a devil. His father is good man and ordinarily his son should reap from his father’s goodwill. But it is not by fighting the structure that made him to realise his ambition. He never informed the structure of his ambition.
Buruji Kashamu
“You are also dragging Bankole, whose father is also the BOT chairman of ADP, into the fray. The same Bankole that you did everything to sink politically. You are full of deceit and anti-party activities. I do not even know what makes you think you can achieve what you could not do as a sitting governor. Apoda, oponu aye rada. Ten thousand Gbenga Daniel and his dogs cannot take over Ogun PDP. We are on it. We shall see who will laugh last.”
In response to Buruji’s tirade, Gbenga Daniel was a bit more subtle.
“Build up to the 2007 election, to stabilize the Party, the leadership across board statewide, decided that all elective officials should be allowed a second term. This is sequel to the UPN strategy in 1983 under Chief Awolowo’s leadership. So Apostle Salako was supported to go for the second term despite Ladi Adebutu’s bid. It was not about money then.
“The strategy paid off, as the Party won all the elective positions in Ogun state without any exception and non of the elections was overturned in any court. The PDP in Ogun State was the model in Party organization and good governance nationwide. May God return our Party to such wining ways again. Amen. Most of the Losers were fully compensated including Ladi who was appointed as a Commisioner in the Local Govt Service Commision after the election in 2007. This experience prepared him for the great job he is now doing at the National Assembly as the Chairman of LG Committee in the House of Representative.
“Dateline 2011, all other Aspirants were asked to drop their ambition to support Ladi for the House of Representative. These Aspirants included Hon Fatai Sowemimo, Prince Niyi Akisanya and Hon John Obafemi who was asked to settle for the House of Assembly which he won. I virtually took over Ladi’s campaign in 2015 and thank God he won squarely. This is just by way of setting the records straight. I know that it’s OGD that many of our people see in their dreams everyday even when I have been doing more of looking than acting.
” The responsibility that I have (having waited for several years hoping the winning ways will return) however is that as the main Builder of the Party brand in Ogun State, I have a relationship with virtually everyone in every camp which cannot be wished away. They are all my people and I am determined to rebuild, enlarge and reunite that formidable machinery for the task ahead. So help us God. I therefore once again appeal to all to stop petty bickering, ‘delete and erase’, close rank and let us move forward,” Otunba Gbenga Daniel concluded
