Senator Buruji Kashamu on Tuesday declared that the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its structure are not for sale.
He warned whoever that was scheming to hijack the party through the suspended Bayo Dayo to be, lest he be scammed.
Kashamu, a major financial of the party since it lost power in the state in 2011, said Bayo Dayo, the two-term chairman of the party in the state and whose tenure lapsed in the first week of April, betrayed his colleagues in the executive committee and his leaders in the state.
In a statement by Buruji, the former senator representing Ogun East, he alleged that Dayo Bayo met a money bag at a hotel in Ijebu-Ode where the ex- state party chairman agreed to hand the party over to the money bag, who promised to reward him in tens of millions of naira.
Kashamu alleged: “Adebayo Dayo vainly tries to impress on his paymasters by creating the impression that he was in control of the Ogun State PDP Executive Committee, in order to receive the rest of the payment promised him for betraying his colleagues in the Ogun State PDP Executive Committee and his leaders in the state for a mess of pottage.
“Let the paymasters know that their pieces of silver for this betrayal (just like those paid to Judas Iscariot) are wasted. They have only bought their defeat again.
“We have the evidence of the meeting at a hotel in Ijebu Ode, where Dayo agreed to hand the Ogun State structures of the PDP to a money bag. What these money bags should realise is that they have been scammed, as Dayo has no power to transfer the structures of the party to anyone.
“This illegal transaction shows the low mentality of Dayo. Otherwise, how can anyone think he can sell a political structure comprising many interests, major stakeholders for a mere money?
“No one is against the reconciliation of aggrieved members, but the question members of the party continue to ask is: how Dayo could claim that he was trying to reconcile anyone when he did not have any meeting with any stakeholder or any of the party’s Executive Committee members at the local government or ward level and carried nobody in the state Executive Committee along before signing his contract with anybody?”

By Ernest Nwokolo