POLITICS
PDP Crises: Buruji Kashamu, Hoodlums Attacks Hon. Ladi Adebutu
The crises rocking the Ogun state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party took a new dimension Tuesday night as the senator representing Ogun east senatorial district, Buruji Kashamu led a team of hoodlums to physically assault another lawmaker, Honourable Oladipupo Adebutu on the sideline of the rescheduled convention of the party in Port Harcourt.
The attack, which eyewitness report says took place at the car park of the Presidential Hotel in Port harcourt was allegedly led by Buruji Kashamu himself.
According to sources, it took the intervention of some other party members present, and mostly supporters of the party’s Caretaker committee chairman, Sen. Ahmed Markafi who came to the scene and prevented what could have been a mayhem.
The two politicians have been at loggerheads over the control the structure of the PDP in Ogun State, which appears to be slipping gradually away from the vice grip of the Ogun State senator.
Ladi Adebutu it was gathered had aligned with the Maikarfi led exco while Buruji Kashamu is believed to be the main architect of the Senator Ali Modu Sherrif’s legal battles to take over the control of the PDP, a situation which had put the Adebutu camp in very strong position to take over the party in Ogun State.
Most party stakeholders in the state are also believed to align with the Adebutu faction which they see as a final breath of fresh air towards repositioning the party returning it into an election winning formula.