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OGUN: Suspended PDP chairman berates Kashamu, says he’s a ‘bad politician’
Engineer Bayo Dayo, the embattled Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Engr. Bayo Dayo, has taken a swipe at the party’s 2019 governorship candidate, Senator Buruji Kashamu.
Dayo, the suspended stated chairman of the party said on Wednesday described Senator Buruji Kashamu, as a “bad politician” who does not care about the interest of his followers.
The politician who was suspended at a meeting of the State Working Committee (SWC) held on March 26 accused him (Kashamu) of masterminding the suspension drama; using those he called “amateur politicians.”
Speaking with newsmen at his residence in Ijebu – Igbo, Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state, Dayo rubbished his suspension, saying only the National Working Committee of the PDP can take any disciplinary measure against him.
He noted that PDP’s popularity has been dwindling in the state following the protracted crisis, but regretted that Kashamu “is not interested in the unity of the PDP.”
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Dayo said; “We tried it in 2011, we failed. We failed in 2015. We failed in 2019. When Senator Buruji Kashamu contested for the Senate in 2015, he had over 120,000 votes (in Ogun East Senatorial District), but he only had 70,000 votes when he contested governorship in 2019. It means that we are reducing in popularity and we should not allow that to continue.
“So, I thought if we can end the crisis, it will be a big glory before leaving office. If we can unite ourselves and work together, Senator Buruji Kashamu does not want that settlement. He wants to go on and on, and be giving us irrelevant orders. If he gives orders sometimes, whether we like it or not, we follow his order, but politics is not run that way.
“He is a very good leader, no doubt. But he is not a good politician. A good politician should be thinking of his followers. We should be thinking of all the young men and women that are behind us. If we don’t win elections, how are they going to benefit from the government? It’s not going to happen,” he added.
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