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How Bayo Dayo sold Ogun PDP for N100m—- Sen. Buruji Kashamu

&NewLine;<p>A stalwart of the &nbsp&semi;Peoples Democratic Party&comma; PDP &nbsp&semi;and its governorship candidate in the 2019 general elections&comma; Senator Buruji Kashamu&comma; &nbsp&semi;has replied the suspended chairman of the party in Ogun State&comma; chief Bayo Dayo&comma; who&comma; in a press statement a week ago at his Ijebu Igbo home&comma; told &nbsp&semi;Kashamu to either&nbsp&semi; embrace reconciliation or forget PDP&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Kashamu described the reconciliation &nbsp&semi;statement as outlandish&comma; saying that it is not in Dayo’s capacity &nbsp&semi;to determine who would stay in PDP or not&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This was disclosed in a statement signed by Kashamu which was made available to OpenLife in Abeokuta&comma; Ogun State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to him&comma; contrary to his claim and pretence to facilitating reconciliation&comma; Chief Dayo was only after what he could grab before leaving office&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He revealed that was the &nbsp&semi;only reason &nbsp&semi;he betrayed the Ogun State PDP structure and its leadership by selling 70 percent of the party structure to Hon&period; Ladi Adebutu and 30 percent for himself&comma; for over a N100 million&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;The level of his betrayal is beyond pardon&period; He has forgotten so soon where he is coming from&period; Chief Dayo was a hunter who lived in an uncompleted building but while with me&comma; he completed the house and built others&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;He was a party leader in Ward 3&comma; Omu&comma; Ijebu North Local Government Area under the leadership of Senator Lekan Mustapha&period; Later on&comma; we joined hands to celebrate Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye’s ministerial appointment&period; After the ceremony&comma; Dayo betrayed his leaders and scattered their group&period; That was how he left unceremoniously&period; History is merely repeating itself&period; Truly&comma; a leopard never changes its spots&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;My attention has been drawn to a publication on Saturday&comma; 18th April&comma; 2020&comma; wherein the suspended Chairman of the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party &lpar;PDP&rpar;&comma; Chief Adebayo Dayo&comma; said it was either I embraced reconciliation or forget PDP&period; I laughed at his outlandish declaration because it is not in his place to determine who would stay in the PDP or not&&num;8221&semi; He added<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;Bayo-Dayo&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-3054"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Bayo Dayo&comma; Ogun PDP Chair<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He noted that he &nbsp&semi;never opposed any reconciliatory move because he knows a tree does not make a forest&comma; saying that Bayo &nbsp&semi;Dayo cannot preside over any reconciliatory move&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;He cannot even be part of it because he does not have the integrity to do so&period; Rather&comma; it should be championed by those who have the trust and confidence of the two main tendencies&period; The National leadership of the party is in a better position to call everyone&comma; hear from them and resolve the issues for &nbsp&semi;PDP to move forward in Ogun State&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;As a matter of fact&comma; when Chief Dayo&comma; Chief R&period;A Adenaike &lpar;a&period;k&period;a Baba Oloolu&rpar;&comma; Dr&period; Remilekun Bakare&comma; Chief Kola Sorinola and the Acting PDP Chairman in Ogun State&comma; Hon&period; Samson Bamgbose &lpar;a&period;k&period;a Imisi&rpar; came to meet me about the need for reconciliation&comma; I told them that it was a good idea so long as they carry key stakeholders along after the congresses&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;I also told them that it was imperative for the other people to publicly repudiate the three-year agreement that they had with the Allied Peoples Movement &lpar;APM&rpar;&period; But&comma; Dayo chose to sidestep everyone and went behind to betray structure and purportedly sold it&period; This is nothing but a scam&excl;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;There was no genuine reconciliation in his moves&period; Reconciliation is a process&period; Parties have to meet&comma; discuss and agree on the modalities and terms of settlement&period; There was no way he would think that just because he was the State Chairman&comma; he could decide for all the leaders&comma; elders and stakeholders&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He furthered added that Bayo Dayo &nbsp&semi;alone went into series of meetings with some persons and shared the State PDP Exco&period; Frankly speaking&comma; Chief Dayo’s move can never work&period; It can only compound the issues&period; If he thinks that heavily-induced proposal would pull through&comma; then he is gravely mistaken&period; Upon Chief Dayo’s emergence as the State PDP Chairman&comma; many leaders and stakeholders&comma; including my humble self&comma; did everything humanly possible to support him even when those he is now flirting with did everything to get him out&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;It was through this structure that Hon&period; Adebutu got the ticket that took him to the House of Representatives in 2015&comma; after trying for close to 20 years&period;&nbsp&semi; He had barely done three months at the House of Representatives when he declared that he wanted to be governor&period; He then started fighting those he thought could oppose him&period; That was how he divided the party&period; In 2015&comma; we got nine House of Assembly seats&comma; two House of Representatives and one Senate against the incumbent government&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;Any purported agreement that &nbsp&semi;Bayo Dayo signed with anyone would not stand&period; Doing so after he was suspended for anti-party activities renders the whole move a nullity&period; It can never work&period; When we get to that bridge&comma; we would cross it&period;&nbsp&semi; He is trying hard to justify the money he was paid to betray all the party leaders and executives&period; His son spent nine years with me&period; During the period&comma; he diverted and stole many things&comma; including money&comma; marble and granite&comma; among others&comma; which he used to build a house and bought 120-acres of land where he has a farm in Ijebu-Igbo&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;While supervising the building of the over N600 million worth Omoilu Foundation Complex&comma; he inflated the bills of his contractor-friends&period;&nbsp&semi; When Chief Dayo was confronted with all these by Dr&period; Bakare and Comrade Abayomi Arabambi&comma; he said one should eat from where he works&period; This means he is an accomplice&period; At the appropriate time&comma; the law will take its course&period; He may well spend the rest of his life shuttling between various Police formations and the court&period; It is going to be battle royale&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;PDP-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-3056"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;On the issue of N100 million&comma; Chief Dayo told Arabambi and others that he was offered 100 million to sell the party structure to the Adebutus and that Hon&period; Ladi Adebutu brought N20 million upfront payment to him&period; But&comma; he asked Hon&period; Adebutu to keep it until he delivers on the deal they had struck&period; Chief Dayo said I had received hundreds of millions of naira on behalf of party members from different quarters which I never disclosed to him&period; This is a mere hogwash&period; He could not tell how much was received from who&comma; where and when&quest; No substance&excl;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;On a final note&comma; Dayo said I am a good leader but not a good politician&period; That is a complement&period; I am not a good politician because I am not good at his kind of debauchery and deceit&period; Conversely&comma; Chief Dayo is a bad leader and greedy politician without a conscience&period; I thank the Almighty Allah that he was not paid to poison me&period; For us&comma; as genuine party men and law-abiding citizens&comma; we will continue to challenge illegality and injustice within the ambits of the law and other internal mechanisms of the party&period; And this will not be an exemption&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8221&semi;The good people of Ogun State and indeed Nigeria should watch as events unfold&period;&nbsp&semi; I am convinced that if all I have said is the truth&comma; then victory is sure&period; And shame shall be the lot of traitors and liars&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kashamu stated<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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