The crises rocking the Ogun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP may be far from being over as dramatist personnel in the party have started to take themselves to the cleaners in the public.
An indication in this direction took place last Tuesday between the senator-elect of Ogun East, Buruji Kashamu and the State Presidential campaign Co-ordinator, Prince Segun Seriki at the Nicon Hilton Hotel in Abuja .
The two PDP politicians who were reportedly at the hotel for a political meeting threw caution to the wind and engaged each other in violent verbal intercation over President Jonathàn's N700million campaign funds to Ogun state during the last elections and how it was spent.
It was further gathered the was a sort of show of shame as the two politicians uttered various unprintable words against each other in the open.
Seriki, a former member of the Federal House of Representatives, who confirmed the incident which he described as unfortunate said “his offence was that he refused to be tele-guided by Kashamu, especially, when the campaign fund was released .
Stressing that he was answerable to former Ogun Governor,Otunba Gbenga Daniel during the period of elections ,Seriki revealed that "a sum of N30 million was given to Kashamu and other candidates from the initial N200 million given to him, adding that, he later gave N200 million from N 500 million later given to the committee."
. Seriki claimed that Ifeanyi Uba. the National Coordinator of Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria ,TAN, was privy to the assault on him by Kashamu at the hotel in Abuja.
“When I was appointed as the campaign coordinator in Ogun State, I chose Daniel, because OGD has the widest mass appeal in Ogun State.
“Before my appointment, there was practically no poster or billboard of President Jonathan in the state and I erected about 100 billboards all over the state with the initial N200 million given to the committee while I bought 45 Sienna cars to aggrieved people who Kashamu was pushing out of the party, but Kashamu was requesting for part of the money,” he revealed.
Seriki who blamed Kashamu for the poor political outing of PDP at the last election in the state, explained that he (Kashamu) took over the party structure with ‘questionable judicial process and unilaterally wrote the name of the unpopular candidates and imposed them on the party.’
When asked if he had reported the matter to the police, Seriki explained that he believed that the alleged threat by Kashamu holds no water, adding that, he doesn’t want his case ‘to accelerate the credibility problem hanging on Kashamu’s neck.’
Meanwhile,the media aide to the Senator-Elect, Austin Oniyokor has already told some section of the media that he was not with his boss to confirm the development but agreed that there might have been some altercations because they belong to the same political party.
He however claimed his boss wouldn’t have gone to the extent of physically assaulting the coordinator for anything.
“There might have been an issue, it mighty have led to altercations, but the allegation was very funny and very unfortunate.",he insisted.
President Goodluck Jonathan had since directed that all billboards and posters erected on his 2015 elections campaign across the country should be removed.
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