Egbe community gets new 500KVA transformer

Egbe community gets new 500KVA transformer

As part of efforts geared towards ensuring that the people of Ogun East Senatorial District enjoy the dividends of democracy, the lawmaker representing Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu on Saturday 16th Dec, 2017 donated a 500KVA transformer to Egbe Community in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State to improve electricity supply in the area.

Handling over the transformer to leaders in the community, the Ogun State coordinator of Omoilu Foundation, Mr. Leke Shittu said that the transformer was meant to improve electricity supply in the community and as well, assist all the business women, men, artisans and everyone making use of electricity in the day to day running of their businesses in the community.

Shittu maintained that the primary objective of the light up Ogun East mission embarked upon by Senator Buruji in the Senatorial District was to boost power supply in the zone and to alleviate the sufferings of the people of Ogun East.

He advised them to make judicious use of the transformer by ensuring its protection and maintenance, assuring that the lawmaker would not leave any stone unturned in ensuring the continuous improvement of the community.

Speaking after receiving the document to the transformer,  the family head of Egbe community, Chief Ola Sobowale expressed happiness that Senator Kashamu came to their rescue to solve their electricity problems, after many years of failed promises by past administrations to provide them with transformer that would boost  power supply in the area.

He thanked the lawmaker for fulfilling the pledge he made to the community few months ago.

KASHAMU : THE MAJORITY SHOULD ACT NOW TO SAVE THE PDP.

KASHAMU : THE MAJORITY SHOULD ACT NOW TO SAVE THE PDP.

Equity is fundamentally about fairness to all people in every situation irrespective of peculiar shortcomings. That's a basic attraction of democracy for providing fair opportunities to all people. In Nigeria, the founding fathers of PDP responding to the equitable peculiarities; institutionalised the national zoning arrangements by making it constitutional. This is the foundation upon which PDP was built as a truly national party. It involves negotiated distribution of public offices in open and transparent inter-zonal negotiated concesus. For such zoning procedure to be harmonious and with acrimony; a virile national party leadership founded on earned trust, sincerity of purpose and selfless  impartiality is a vital pathfinder which major stakeholders would rally behind. That virile and selfless national party leadership is lacking in the current National caretaker committee. As it were, PDP is currently under a "one chance" national party leadership that is propelled by egocentric agenda of working to achieve predetermined self-serving goals. This egocentric agenda could ruin our party while this opportunistic national leadership couldn't be bothered or are probably unawared of the enormity of their actions, having been overwhelmed by myopic illusions and petty selfishness. It has thus become imperative for the majority of the visionary and committed leaders, major stakeholders and convention delegates to rise to the responsibility of saving the PDP at the forthcoming national convention. I accordingly make this clarion call to all PDP stakeholders to rise up to the challenge.

Devoid of being parochial coming from the Southwest, my position is borne out of nationalistic sentiments and quest for equitable justice and fairplay upon only which the PDP can thrive and win national elections again. Without prejudice to anybody's right to contest irrespective of the established zoning arrangements, it's an open secret that the PDP national chairmanship has been conceded to the Southwest pre-Portharcourt convention. As of consequence of this, other positions zoned to the southwest were innocuous deputies to substantive offices except the Treasurer. Even the Deputy national secretary that is a member of the NWC wasn't included. All these were because of the vital national chairmanship already conceded to the Southwest. Infact, if elections were to hold then, a particular promising young politician from Lagos, Southwest could have won. With the aberration that the Makarfi emergence was, the centre cannot hold again given his jaundiced selfish presidential ambition without considerations to all concerned.

Agreed that the only thing constant in life is change, but if a consensual stand is to be  changed; won't all concerned be carried all for re-enactment of appropriately new concesus? Must it be done in nauseating administrative manipulations and uncultured disdain of flaunting state wealth as war chest to bribe delegates as is currently happening? It is only reasonable and fair that a new all-inclusive stakeholders meeting be called, where necessary re-zoning of key party posts from the South would be rescheduled to enable the national chairmanship become open to all southern zones. Similarly, the previously held concesus of the Vice-president coming from the Southeast in 2019 would accordingly be revoked for all Southern zones including the Southwest to contend as is happening now.

The PDP Southeast needs to be categorical now in support of the Southwest  on the ongoing national chairmanship tussle between the  Southwest and the South-south. Quite honestly, the logical implication of this avoidable tussle is to make uncertain, the settled Southeast Vice-presidential quest in 2019. If the Southeast expectedly takes a principled stance in rightful support of the Southwest, naturally as a reliable tribe in adherence to agreements, the Yoruba PDP would reciprocate without any prompting. What is currently happening is glaringly an orchestrated assault on the Southwest to end up with nothing in 2019, with the disgusting  connivance of the national party administrators. This is a dangerously illogical political permutation for 2019 national elections. Infact, Makarfi is disastrously the major impediment to a successful forthcoming national convention and credibly feasible permutations towards 2019. His inept leadership style is an unimaginable jeopardy to this party. How can a credible national leadership disqualify self from finding solution to a ranging disorder in some zones of the federation by leaving the people there to their funerals to find solutions? However, this same clueless Makarfi leadership can invoke authority to dissolve valid state exco from these zones, even in disobedience to substituting court judgements and sell the party structures there to his compromised allies. Ironically, such a clown dreams of becoming the President of the federation!!!

Indeed, the PDP Northern Elders Forum have demonstrated enviably  commendable pan-Nigerian initiative by refusing to be coaxed or intimidated in their resolve to rightly and rightfully canvass northern votes for only the Southwest chairmanship aspirants. Indeed, their position is very appropriate and validly tenable particularly as it's about an extremely vital office like the National party Chairmanship. This is a demonstration of nationalistic fairness and it's advisable for other zonal elders to emulate this principle stance. I not only salute them over their sterling courage and sensible love for Nigeria; I humbly wish to appeal that they encourage their delegates to disregard the lure of monetary inducements by these selfish agents of our ignominious past errors. I passionately appeal also to credible nationalists, major stakeholders and leaders of thoughts from the Southeast and the South-south to follow suit by advising their delegates to support the Southwest legitimate quest for national chairmanship in the best interests of the PDP with less emphasis on money. However, those delegates who insist on taking from whatever unethical state funds misappropriation being boasted of, should  be enlightened of the overriding advantages of voting rightly to signify that the PDP and indeed our future is not for sale. It is by our actions as is necessary for us to display now, that we could teach our public office holders that the public treasury is not their haven of arbitrarily wasteful misadventures. Rather, public funds should and must be expended on the socio-economic development of the area and people concerned.

I admire the resilience and doggedly focused fighting spirit of Gov Wike. He is qualified and entitled to increased national relevance and prominence. However, his present voyage of becoming the "Lord of the manor" is logically infeasible. He needs to be cautious and avoid becoming a prey to the mischievous Makarfi presidential inordinate ambition. More importantly, imposing his choice national chairmanship aspirant on the PDP would serve him more harm than good. There is practically no way he can assume pragmatic leadership over all these established  Nothern leaders as well as the untired credible leaders from the Southwest, Southeast and even his own South-south. If he succeeds in this current adventure, he would have a PDP that would have become majorly a southern party to manage. And PDP as a southern party in Nigeria is empirically an empty shell of no major national relevance. If that is not hid goal,; he is better off with a rethink and forget this ongoing overlord adventure. Gov Wike's Rivers state has always been a wealthy Nigerian oil state; governors had existed before him without from that position becoming Nigerian political Lord, not out of being timid or unqualified. And after Gov Wike, there would still be successively governors of Rivers state. The process of becoming Nigerian superior leader is divinely without deliberate self-induced manipulations. I beg of Gov Wike to save the PDP of this avoidable calamity and possible collapse by allowing voice of reason to prevail.  He should like in Makarfi's case of selfish betrayal of the North, be also circumspect of Gov Fayose who is currently swimming against the tide of ocean in his native Southwest. That Fayose in frustration declared to run for the Presidency already zoned to the North is an empirical evidence of his confused state of mind as his gubernatorial tenure is about to terminate. Wike needs to tend his bright political future within the Nigeria nations rather  than playing broke like these characters whose political relevance is terminating.

Finally, I reiterate passionately, my appeal to ALL delegates to as it affects the national chairmanship contest, support ONLY the Southwest aspirants to assist in saving the PDP, our party, from this avoidable self destruction. In this light, it's further advisable to logically request that delegates vote massively for the generally acclaimed Southwest aspirant without corruption or any public service stain widely not unknown; to make the desirable support of the Southwest national chairmanship realisable and meaningfully effectual. No amount of petty monetary inducements can equate the dividends derivable from a prosperous Nigeria under a re-invented and better structured PDP truly national party.

Long live Nigeria!
Long live the PDP!!
PDP - Power to the                 
            people!!!

*Sen Buruji Kashamu*

RE: EKITI COURT OF APPEAL RULING ON SOUTH WEST ZONAL EXCO

RE: EKITI COURT OF APPEAL RULING ON SOUTH WEST ZONAL EXCO

The attention of the authentic South West Zonal Executive under my leadership has been drawn to today’s (Monday, 4th December, 2017) ruling of the Court of Appeal, Ekiti Division and a press statement credited to one Eddy Olafeso who has continued to contemptuously lay claim to the leadership of the party in the zone.

First, it should be made abundantly clear that the order for a stay of execution relates to the orders and rulings in Suit No. FHC/AD/CS/18/2017.

Let all our notable leaders, elders and supporters, it does not in any way detract from the implications of the orders and judgment of the court in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/605/2016 which specifically nullified the sham congress from which Olafeso claimed to have emerged and then went ahead to confirm my four years tenure as expiring in October 2018 having been elected in October 2014.

I wish to state that in spite of the inexplicable decision of the Court of Appeal, Ado-Ekiti Division, to make an order even when there was no evidence that we (the defendants) had been served and had no legal representation in court, my Exco remains strong and undaunted.

Even our former lawyers who handled the matter at the trial court said they were served at about 4pm on Thursday, the 30th of November, 2017 and parties were summoned to appear in court on Monday, the 4th of December, 2017. It is a matter of public knowledge that the 1st of December, 2017, is a public holiday in Nigeria, while the 2nd and 3rd of December, 2017, are non-working days, being Saturday and Sunday respectively. The implication of this travesty of justice was that we were unable to brief a lawyer to file any response to the two motions before they came up today and an order for stay of execution of the orders of the trial court was granted. Clearly, this violates our right to fair hearing.

It was on the basis of this that in addition to the letter I had written to the Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Ekiti Division and copied to the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA) and the Chief Justice of the Federation (CJN), I was personally in court to plead with the justices to give us an adjournment of a day or two for our new counsel to respond to the motions filed before the court.

But, the court in its wisdom brushed aside my plea and went ahead to grant the stay of execution without affording us the benefit of a legal representation and fair hearing.

Although my confidence in the judiciary as the hope of the common man is unwavering, I cannot say the same thing of the panel sitting over this matter. The haste with which it has handled this matter against the principles of justice and fair hearing, the panel seems to have descended into the arena of partisan politics.

It will be recalled that the Federal High Court had ordered the Olafeso faction to stop parading itself as executive members of the party in the South-West.

The order of the Ado-Ekiti Division of the Federal High Court was based on the fact that the Lagos Division of the court had in17th of May, 2016, the congress that produced the Olafeso group having been held in violation of subsisting orders of the court.

The court had also held that the four years tenure of the Ogundipe-led zonal exco expires in 2018 having been elected in October 2014.

In a ruling delivered in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/605/2016 on the 17th of May, 2016, the court held “That an order is granted nullifying the South West congress conducted on the 14th of May, 2016 in Akure, which was so conducted in defiance of the order of this court made in this action on the 11th of May 2016 restraining the 2nd, 3rd and 4thDefendants from conducting or permitting or recognizing any election into the offices of the South West Zonal Executive Committee pending the hearing and determination of the Originating Summons…Everything built on actions in defiance of a court order is a nullity.”

Furthermore, in a final judgment delivered on the 24th of June, 2016, the court categorically stated, “That an order is granted to the Plaintiff restraining the 2nd, 3rd and 4thDefendants from conducting or permitting or recognizing any election into the offices of the South West Zonal Executive Committee until October, 2018, when the four years term of the current officers, including the Plaintiff would have been spent.

“That an order is granted to the Plaintiff directing the 1st Defendant not to recognize any other persons apart from the current officers of the South West Zonal Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party as set out in the result sheet for Zonal Congress for election of Zonal Executive members dated the 11th of October, 2014 until their four year term expires in October, 2018.”

I understand that the amateurs are misconstruing the Supreme Court judgment. It is a matter of public knowledge that the Olafeso group never had any case before the Supreme Court that they could benefit from.

Chapter 1 (General Provision) Sections 1, 2, & 3 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria states that, “(a) The Fed. Republic of Nigeria shall not be governed nor shall any person or group of persons take control of the Government of Nigeria.  (b) If any other law (PDP convention/decision) is inconsistent with the provision of this Constitution (the court decision), this Constitution shall prevail. In essence, the court decision in favor of the Ogun State PDP executive stand.

In the light of the above, I wish to appeal to all our supporters to remain calm; for, as light triumphs over darkness, the truth will soon catch up with their lies sooner than later.

 Signed

Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe

National Vice-Chairman, PDP, South West



Kashamu Receives Heroic Welcome In Sagamu

Kashamu Receives Heroic Welcome In Sagamu

Overwhelming crowd surged to welcome the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu to Sagamu Local Government Area on Sunday.

The lawmaker who was received on arrival to the Local Government Area by the Peoples Democratic Party leaders and members abandoned  his motorcade to identify with the crowd who had already gathered in the street to welcome him.

The crowd cheered as the lawmaker walked to the party secretariat, screaming “Alanu mekunu, olowo ton fowo sanu,  kaabo si Sagamu, meaning “a friend of the masses, welcome to Sagamu”.

The lawmaker earlier paid homage to the Akarigbo elect, HRM Oba Adewale Babatunde Ajayi (Iluyomade Ilufemiloye Torungbuwa II) at his Sagamu residence in company of the Ogun PDP chairman, Engr. Adebayo Dayo, Prince Segun Seriki, the Ogun East PDP Senatorial chairman, Hon. Daisi Akintan, the Ogun State coordinator of Omoilu Foundation, Mr. Leke Shittu, the State organising secretary of the party, Hon. Koye Ijaduoye among others.