The senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Buruji Kashamu has urged the Chairman of National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, to tread cautiously and adhere to the Rule of Law.

In a letter entitled "The Need to Adhere to the Rule of Law on PDP Ogun State and South West Zonal Excos Issues", addressed to Makarfi, Kashamu enjoined Makarfi to rise up to the occasion in resolving the intra-party issues being a product of the law.

 He warned that failure to correct the various infractions could endanger the proposed elective national convention of the party.


Kashamu said, " I am without choice than to write to advise you again when I learnt that you are planning another national convention for December despite the avalanche of disobedience of court orders during your planning of the last convention with the  attending vicissitudes such illegal actions have created. Could it be that, unknown to me, the PDP National caretaker committee has assumed appellate jurisdiction over Nigerian high courts? Infact, I wish to also think that you are not deliberately working with your caretaker members to destroy the PDP in the South West and particularly Ogun State. 

"Otherwise, one is left to wonder why ordinarily easy and righteous reconciliatory steps are difficult for you to take. Rather, you increasingly complicated the matters for no logical reasons other than extreme self interests and parochial repayments for support of your stand, or lack of same; during your National leadership tussle with Sheriff. Even if you are to be egocentric, though that's unfortunate; must it be this total as to disregard and seek to deliberately circumvent the rule of law and possibly destroy the party in the whole of the SW zone? 

"Should you by the benevolence of Allah, become the President of the Federal Republic, is this how you would handle national and intra-zonal disputes?"

Kashamu, who said he has nothing personal against Makarfi, wondered why he has refused to be an unbiased umpire. 

"Several letters had been written to you by the legitimate SW zonal exco and that of Ogun State. Details of subsisting orders and judgements of competent courts of jurisdiction were clearly stated. It is to be expected of you to have verified the validity of the claims and counterclaims.  

"Reasonably, it is upon this initial due diligence that you could now fairly and honestly settle the issues in dispute out of court. Thus, such credible reconciliation could then be filed in the courts as out of court settlement as judgement.  


"Unfortunately, up till now, you have neither responded to issues addressed to you in multiple letters nor called the contending interests for the SW zonal and Ogun State excos for reconciliation. Rather, you arbitrarily in league with your recent PDP National leadership litigations allies; recognised a disbanded SW exco by a subsisting court order and include flagrant disobedience to court judgements unappealed and recent orders of court illegally chose to dissolve the Ogun excos. Why didn't you call the parties in dispute over the SW zonal and Ogun state excos as you did to those in disputes over Oyo, Osun and Lagos states? Is there no disputes in Ekiti and Ondo states with consequent parallel excos? Why didn't you dissolve the Ekiti state exco? Is Ekiti PDP exco monolithic without any rancour? Ditto Ondo State exco?" Kashamu asked.

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