INEC REVERSES SELF ON OGUN PDP EXCO
…Recognises Adebayo Dayo-led Exco
The crisis rocking the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have been resolved with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reversing itself and recognizing the Engr. Adebayo Dayo as the State Chairman of the party.
Hitherto, the Commission and the national leadership of the PDP had recognized Hon. Sikirulai Ogundele as the State Chairman of the party, a development that resulted in several litigations, culminating in a recent judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos.
In a 12th April, 2018 letter entitled “Re: Gross Violation and Disrespect to Subsisting and Valid Judgment of Court by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) With Respect to Recognition of Ogun State Executive Committee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)” and addressed to the law firm of Ricky Tarfa (SAN), INEC said, “The Commission in compliance with the Judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/1556/2017 delivered on 9th February, 2018 has notified the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party of its compliance with the said judgment.”
In a separate letter with the same date and addressed to the National Chairman of the PDP, the Commission stated why it decided to reverse itself.
The letter, entitled “Re: Ogun State Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)” reads in part, “You may recall that the National Convention of the PDP on 12th August, 2017 dissolved the Engr. Adebayo Dayo-led Ogun State Executive Committee of the PDP and a Congress was conducted at which the current members of the Ogun State Executive Committee were elected.
“After the said congress, the Commission was served with the attached judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos delivered on 9thFebruary, 2018 in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/1556/2017 wherein the Court ordered as follows:
‘I have considered the arguments of counsel on the issues of precedence and abuse of court process and I find myself in disagreement with counsel for the Defendants. The reasons being, first on the argument that the issues raised by the Plaintiff have been dealt with in the case of PDP VS. SHERIFF, this position is untrue and misleading. The primary contention in that case was over the seat of the chairman of the National Caretaker Committee while the issue in this case is regarding the Ogun State delegates representing the party at the National Convention…that the parties herein are bound by the decision of this Court in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/636/2016 delivered by Buba J. on the 24th day of June 2016 and Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/701/2017 until they are set aside by a Court of competent jurisdiction’.
“Consequently, the Commission shall comply with the said judgment of the Federal High Court. Please be guided accordingly.”
It would be recalled that Tarfa had on the 26th of March, 2018 written a letter to the Commission asking it to obey the judgment of the court in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/1556/2017.
Also, the lawmaker representing Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu had on the same date written the Commission over the Ogun State PDP Executive.
Kashamu questioned why the commission was recalcitrant in keeping to its tradition of obeying court orders and judgments until a superior court says otherwise.
The lawmaker said the latest judgment had been served on the Commission and wondered why the “the Director of Legal Services, Mrs. Oluwatoyin Babalola, was either keeping the judgment away from your office and/or sitting on it”.
This was followed by a letter dated 3rd April, 2018, in which Dayo threatened to take some steps against the Commission if his request to reverse itself on the issue of the Ogun State PDP Exco was not granted within a week.
Reacting to the Commission’s decision to reverse itself and recognize his Exco, Dayo said, “There was no victor, no vanquished.This is not the time to score cheap political points or celebrate over anyone. The party has won; democracy has won and the Rule of Law has won. It is victory for all our party leaders, elders and members. We all – aspirants, leaders and followers – need to come together and embrace peace and work in unity for the task ahead of us as a party. Let us forget the past and join hands to work for a glorious future,” Dayo said.
He appealed to all aspirants, party leaders and members to come together and work for the interest of the people.
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Ogun community gets new trasformer
Ogun community gets new trasformer
IKENNE—In fulfillment of his electioneering campaigns, a member of the upper legislative chamber, Prince Buruji kashamu, has donated a 500KVA transformer to Ajegunle community in Ikenne Local Government Area to boost power supply in the community.
Kashamu represents Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly.
Presenting the transformer to the community, Kashamu, who was represented by the Ogun State coordinator of Omoilu Foundation, Mr. Leke Shittu, urged residents to protect the transformer from vandals.
He said the gesture would improve socio-economic activities in the community.
A leader in the community, Engr. Tunde Fakiye, thanked the lawmaker, saying the gesture would boost commerce.
IKENNE—In fulfillment of his electioneering campaigns, a member of the upper legislative chamber, Prince Buruji kashamu, has donated a 500KVA transformer to Ajegunle community in Ikenne Local Government Area to boost power supply in the community.
Kashamu represents Ogun East Senatorial District at the National Assembly.
Presenting the transformer to the community, Kashamu, who was represented by the Ogun State coordinator of Omoilu Foundation, Mr. Leke Shittu, urged residents to protect the transformer from vandals.
He said the gesture would improve socio-economic activities in the community.
A leader in the community, Engr. Tunde Fakiye, thanked the lawmaker, saying the gesture would boost commerce.
Thursday, 4 January 2018
ONAMUSI DANIEL ONADEKO: YOU ARE AN INCORRIGBLE LIAR
ONAMUSI DANIEL ONADEKO: YOU ARE AN INCORRIGBLE LIAR
My attention has just been drawn to yet another odious comment by my former employee and Senior Legislative Aide (SLA), Onamusi Daniel Onadeko wherein he accused me of lying over the fact that no leader authorised him to execute 18 out of the 21 constituency projects I facilitated in Ogun East Senatorial District in the 2016 budget.
I think by now it should be clear to reasonable minds that Onamusi is an incorrigble liar who is confused and destabilised as a result of the needless trouble his unbridled greed has brought upon him.
The indubitable point I made in my yesterday's rejoinder was that he claimed the beneficiary leaders authorised him to do the projects but he couldn't name them because he knew he was lying.
Secondly, assuming without conceding that the leaders authorised him to do the projects, how was it possible that ALL of them gave ONLY Onamusi such a mandate? Was there any written document to that effect?
Fortunately (or is it unfortunately?), the only leader he mentioned as his witness in his comment following my challenge to him, Chief Ade Alatishe (a.k.a Elerugbada) has come out to confirm all I have said and put a lie to his frivolous claims. The questions remain: how would Onamusi claim that leaders authorised him to execute projects on their behalf and such people do not know the value of the contract, how much had been paid? What had been expended? And what was left?
For the avoidance of doubt, what Onamusi did was to inform the leaders of the constituency projects standing to their credit; he then collected the names of their companies and in some cases money for bids, and turned round to inform them that their companies were not qualified. He later offered to help them get qualified contractors who will execute the projects in their respective communities.
Unknown to them, he and his companies were the "qualified contractors" he offered to help them get. That was how he cornered 18 out of 21 constituency projects using two of his companies while serving as my SLA!
Onamusi, it is most unfortunate that a pathological liar like you could turn round to call me names. If for nothing at all, I was your employer and benefactor. Apart from all that you have gotten from me fraudulently, when you had no roof over your head in Abuja, I put you in Protea Hotel where I paid N25,000 per night for six months and then gave you N2.5 million to rent a house which you never did. Instead, you went to squat in the house of one of your friends. I didn't ask you to return the money. Can you also recall how you pestered me to buy you a Lexus jeep before the bubble burst? Onamusi, by your conduct, you have simply defeacated in the church and instead of you to bury your head in shame, you are engaging in needless gymnastics. You need to go and seek forgiveness from God and man. Otherwise, you will soon be consumed by your greed and recalcitrance. May God have mercy on you!
Signed
Senator Buruji Kashamu
Ogun East Senatorial District 04.01.18
Wednesday, 3 January 2018
RE: RESPONSE TO SENATOR BURUJI KASHAMU BY ONAMUSI DANIEL ONADEKO
RE: RESPONSE TO SENATOR BURUJI KASHAMU BY ONAMUSI DANIEL ONADEKO
I have again read the response of my former Senior Legislative Aide (SLA), Hon. Onamusi Daniel Onadeko, to the rejoinder I wrote, replying him over his claims that his ordeals in the hands of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) - which is trying him for fraud, abuse of office and other sundry offences - was sponsored and politically motivated.
1. Onamusi, it should be clear to discerning minds who have read your hogwash that you failed woefully in your attempt to blackmail me and wipe up unnecessary sentiments. By your own account of the events that transpired between us, you have inadvertently and incontrovertibly confirmed that you used two of your companies to execute 18 of out 21 constituency projects I facilitated for Ogun East Senatorial District in the 2016 budget while serving as my SLA! However, your justification was that you did so based on the instructions of some unnamed party leaders. Onamusi, you lied! No leader authorized you to execute projects on their behalf. Yours was a fraudulent act, bordering on insatiable greed, abuse of office, betrayal of trust and unconscionable treachery.
2. With respect to your claim about those I have political differences with, it is not today that people; especially politicians, disagree with one another and then settle their differences. That is why they say we agree to disagree. If as you claimed, you were warned not to relate with me or get close to me, why did it take my objection to your dishonest and fraudulent acts to realize this?
3. The truth of the matter is that based on instructions that my office should not be involved in contract award and execution and that you should inform qualified constituents and party leaders who are contractors and who may be interested in executing such projects in their communities, you informed some of them and they submitted their documents to you. You even collected money from some of them that you needed to use to pay for bids and process some documents. But, you later told them that their companies did not qualify and that you could help them to get contractors who would execute the projects on their behalf. Unknown to them, you and your companies were the “contractors” that you offered to get for them. Stop lying that you executed the contracts with the consent of the leaders or in my best interest? Which interest? Are you saying that you had my interest at heart more than those you falsely claimed to have acted for? How could you have executed contracts on someone’s behalf without his or her knowledge of the contract name, sum, site and other details? Besides, were you a legislative aide or a contractor?
4. You consistently lied to me and community/party leaders and constituents that different contractors handled the projects until the Constituency Projects Monitoring Committee that I set up went to inspect the projects and stated the names of the companies handling each of them. That was when it was revealed that two of your companies – Stanton Nigeria Limited and Haines & Baines Nigeria Limited – handled over 90 percent of the projects.
5. Upon the committee’s report, when I repeatedly asked you who owned the two companies, you denied same until I confronted you with Sworn Affidavits at the FCT High Court, Abuja and documents from the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), bearing your passport photograph, name and signature as director of the companies! You then went down on your knees, owned up to the deals and started begging for forgiveness. But, I told you that the matter was beyond me because the crime you committed was not against me but the Federal Government and I would not want to be accused of complicity or using you as a front to influence the award of contracts to myself or companies where I had interests.
6. Now, if you claim that there are decided cases and laws which preclude legislative aides from being public officers, why not just go through the judicial process, like I did in the United Kingdom over the needless case that you referred to and have had to defend in the past, to establish your innocence? At least, you have publicly stated and admitted that you saw some judgments and documents relating to the case and you became “VERY comfortable” with me, adding that, “Whatever could be the opinion of any individual (including you, Onamusi) regarding the issue…cannot supersede the court judgments”. So, why the old worn-out talk about going to the US?
7. Going by your claim on precedents, it is only “The President and Deputy President of the Senate, Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the House of Representatives and Houses of Assembly of the State and all members and staff of Legislative Houses” that are public officers. If you knew that senators are public officers who should not be involved in contract awards and execution, and yet you carried on as if I instructed you to represent me in executing the contracts, it goes to confirm my suspicion that you deliberately wanted to set me up and put me in trouble – the very reason I had to be proactive in proving my innocence and exonerating myself. It should also be noted that the case (s) you cited, according to you, had to do with terminal benefits and emoluments and not abuse of office and gross misconduct. Again, if by your admission, public officers include “ALL members and staff of Legislative Houses”, then the argument could be stretched further to mean that it includes Legislative Aides because the drafters of the law did not specify whether temporary or permanent staff. While I have only gone this route to open up your mind, I honestly think that all these your positions are better canvassed in a court of law.
8. While I appreciate all you claimed to have done during my election and the six days that the NDLEA illegally laid siege to my house, they are not enough reasons for you to put me in trouble or deprive others, including party leaders and constituents their right and entitlements. They are Nigerians and equal stakeholders.
9. If it is true that you spent N3million of your personal money to organize raffle draw in your hometown or local government for my election to the Senate, I thank you for the gesture but I am aware that you have equally realized up to N70million in the 22 months that you worked with me as SLA, either by hook or crook. That is why you have the guts to be exchanging these kinds of shameless messages with me after your brazen acts of corruption and fraud. You think you have made some good money and could look anyone, including your benefactors, in the face.
10. On the issue of 2019 and the promise that you said I made to you on either a governorship or senatorial ticket, Onamusi, you lied again. It was when I heard that you were using my name and influence to fight people like Zacchaeus and others over the PDP Exco in your local government that I told you to desist from such act. I said if you had gone to the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2003 on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), you cannot possibly go below that. And if that were to be the case, it would be decided at the State or national level. I then admonished you to leave these people whom you met in the party and still by-passed to clinch the SLA position to constitute the LG Exco. That was all I told you. I never promised you any senatorial or governorship ticket. I could not have done so because I am not God!
11. Onamusi, it is surprising that you stated that your second piece would be the last on this issue. I had expected you to continue so that I can go further to release all the correspondences and text messages that we both exchanged on this matter and then people would see who should seek forgiveness from God and man between the two of us.
12. For now, I will keep my powder dry; waiting for you to fire the next salvo and then you shall have it in full measure since you asked for it. Thank you and God bless.
Signed
Senator Buruji Kashamu
Ogun East Senatorial District
03.01.18
I have again read the response of my former Senior Legislative Aide (SLA), Hon. Onamusi Daniel Onadeko, to the rejoinder I wrote, replying him over his claims that his ordeals in the hands of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) - which is trying him for fraud, abuse of office and other sundry offences - was sponsored and politically motivated.
1. Onamusi, it should be clear to discerning minds who have read your hogwash that you failed woefully in your attempt to blackmail me and wipe up unnecessary sentiments. By your own account of the events that transpired between us, you have inadvertently and incontrovertibly confirmed that you used two of your companies to execute 18 of out 21 constituency projects I facilitated for Ogun East Senatorial District in the 2016 budget while serving as my SLA! However, your justification was that you did so based on the instructions of some unnamed party leaders. Onamusi, you lied! No leader authorized you to execute projects on their behalf. Yours was a fraudulent act, bordering on insatiable greed, abuse of office, betrayal of trust and unconscionable treachery.
2. With respect to your claim about those I have political differences with, it is not today that people; especially politicians, disagree with one another and then settle their differences. That is why they say we agree to disagree. If as you claimed, you were warned not to relate with me or get close to me, why did it take my objection to your dishonest and fraudulent acts to realize this?
3. The truth of the matter is that based on instructions that my office should not be involved in contract award and execution and that you should inform qualified constituents and party leaders who are contractors and who may be interested in executing such projects in their communities, you informed some of them and they submitted their documents to you. You even collected money from some of them that you needed to use to pay for bids and process some documents. But, you later told them that their companies did not qualify and that you could help them to get contractors who would execute the projects on their behalf. Unknown to them, you and your companies were the “contractors” that you offered to get for them. Stop lying that you executed the contracts with the consent of the leaders or in my best interest? Which interest? Are you saying that you had my interest at heart more than those you falsely claimed to have acted for? How could you have executed contracts on someone’s behalf without his or her knowledge of the contract name, sum, site and other details? Besides, were you a legislative aide or a contractor?
4. You consistently lied to me and community/party leaders and constituents that different contractors handled the projects until the Constituency Projects Monitoring Committee that I set up went to inspect the projects and stated the names of the companies handling each of them. That was when it was revealed that two of your companies – Stanton Nigeria Limited and Haines & Baines Nigeria Limited – handled over 90 percent of the projects.
5. Upon the committee’s report, when I repeatedly asked you who owned the two companies, you denied same until I confronted you with Sworn Affidavits at the FCT High Court, Abuja and documents from the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), bearing your passport photograph, name and signature as director of the companies! You then went down on your knees, owned up to the deals and started begging for forgiveness. But, I told you that the matter was beyond me because the crime you committed was not against me but the Federal Government and I would not want to be accused of complicity or using you as a front to influence the award of contracts to myself or companies where I had interests.
6. Now, if you claim that there are decided cases and laws which preclude legislative aides from being public officers, why not just go through the judicial process, like I did in the United Kingdom over the needless case that you referred to and have had to defend in the past, to establish your innocence? At least, you have publicly stated and admitted that you saw some judgments and documents relating to the case and you became “VERY comfortable” with me, adding that, “Whatever could be the opinion of any individual (including you, Onamusi) regarding the issue…cannot supersede the court judgments”. So, why the old worn-out talk about going to the US?
7. Going by your claim on precedents, it is only “The President and Deputy President of the Senate, Speakers and Deputy Speakers of the House of Representatives and Houses of Assembly of the State and all members and staff of Legislative Houses” that are public officers. If you knew that senators are public officers who should not be involved in contract awards and execution, and yet you carried on as if I instructed you to represent me in executing the contracts, it goes to confirm my suspicion that you deliberately wanted to set me up and put me in trouble – the very reason I had to be proactive in proving my innocence and exonerating myself. It should also be noted that the case (s) you cited, according to you, had to do with terminal benefits and emoluments and not abuse of office and gross misconduct. Again, if by your admission, public officers include “ALL members and staff of Legislative Houses”, then the argument could be stretched further to mean that it includes Legislative Aides because the drafters of the law did not specify whether temporary or permanent staff. While I have only gone this route to open up your mind, I honestly think that all these your positions are better canvassed in a court of law.
8. While I appreciate all you claimed to have done during my election and the six days that the NDLEA illegally laid siege to my house, they are not enough reasons for you to put me in trouble or deprive others, including party leaders and constituents their right and entitlements. They are Nigerians and equal stakeholders.
9. If it is true that you spent N3million of your personal money to organize raffle draw in your hometown or local government for my election to the Senate, I thank you for the gesture but I am aware that you have equally realized up to N70million in the 22 months that you worked with me as SLA, either by hook or crook. That is why you have the guts to be exchanging these kinds of shameless messages with me after your brazen acts of corruption and fraud. You think you have made some good money and could look anyone, including your benefactors, in the face.
10. On the issue of 2019 and the promise that you said I made to you on either a governorship or senatorial ticket, Onamusi, you lied again. It was when I heard that you were using my name and influence to fight people like Zacchaeus and others over the PDP Exco in your local government that I told you to desist from such act. I said if you had gone to the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2003 on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), you cannot possibly go below that. And if that were to be the case, it would be decided at the State or national level. I then admonished you to leave these people whom you met in the party and still by-passed to clinch the SLA position to constitute the LG Exco. That was all I told you. I never promised you any senatorial or governorship ticket. I could not have done so because I am not God!
11. Onamusi, it is surprising that you stated that your second piece would be the last on this issue. I had expected you to continue so that I can go further to release all the correspondences and text messages that we both exchanged on this matter and then people would see who should seek forgiveness from God and man between the two of us.
12. For now, I will keep my powder dry; waiting for you to fire the next salvo and then you shall have it in full measure since you asked for it. Thank you and God bless.
Signed
Senator Buruji Kashamu
Ogun East Senatorial District
03.01.18
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