By Abdulfatai Sobande
The Sikirulah Ogundele led Ogun State Executive Committee of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has exonerated police from taking side in the recent ejection of the factional executives committee headed by Chief Samson Bamgbose from the party’s state Secretariat in Abeokuta, the state capital.
The PDP State Executive Committee also dared Bamgbose and his faction to go to court for proper interpretation of its July 21 verdict which empowered the out-gone Engineer Adebayo Dayo led executives to conduct Congress in the state.
Bamgbose whose State Executive Committee is loyal to the Late Senator Buruji Kashamu, had earlier this week petitioned the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu, accusing the State Police Commissioner, Edward Awolowo Ajogun of taking side with the Ogundele State Executive Committee in the last September 4 ejection of his faction from the PDP State Secretariat.
But Honourable Ogundele whose executives committee is recognized by the PDP National Working Committee, in a chat with Ogun Today in Abeokuta, explained that the police acted in compliance with the recent court verdict which empowered it to do so.
Ogundele in response to the petition against the Inspector General of Police, explained that Adebayo Dayo midwifed the Congress that produced him and other members of the State Executive Committee, dismissing the claim by Bamgbose in the petition that Dayo was suspended by the state executives committee.
Bamgbose had claimed that Dayo was suspended as chairman by the State Executive Committee before the Congress that elected him along side other executives,was conducted last May during the COVID-19 lockdown in the state.
Ogundele however faulted the claim, insisting that the State Executive Committee lacks such power in the PDP constitution to suspend any of its members and only the NWC is empowered to suspend erring member at the state level.
The State Police Commissioner according to him, acted on the petition written by the PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus to the Inspector General of Police to enforce the court verdict.
“We have carefully studied all the issues raised in the petition written by the Bamgbose’s faction to the Inspector General of Police and we responded accordingly to the petition through the State Police Commissioner to the IGP”, Ogundele stated.
“I’m advising Bamgbose and his group to please allow Kashamu to rest in his grave and support executives Committee in the state to move PDP forward”, he added.
