Senator Buruji Kashamu,
representing Ogun East Senatorial District, has asked the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to speed up the alleged corruption trial of
ex-Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
Both Gbenga and Kashamu are
contending for the chairmanship stool of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Kashamu, who described the PDP
Chairmanship ambition of Daniel as “a mockery of democracy and assault on the
anti-corruption war”, faulted the former governor for attacking the
anti-corruption drive of the present administration during his formal
declaration to contest for chairman of the opposition party last Wednesday.
The senator, in a statement,
urged the Ogun State government and the and EFCC to expedite action on Daniel’s
alleged corruption case since he was now making a jest of the anti-corruption
war.
The statement reads, “Daniel’s
speech at his declaration for the PDP National Chairmanship race was a
compendium of mockery of our democracy and direct assault on the
anti-corruptiion war. In that speech, there was nothing OGD didn’t call himself
whereas he is actually the exact opposite of all these attributes.
“He insultingly eulogised the
undemocratic past of which he was eminently involved; when our elections were
characterised by shameless rigging, as if current efforts and legislations to
ensure free and fair elections are unworthy.”
“Furthermore, he sought to
trivialise his ongoing EFCC case where he is truly being accused of converting
Judge’s quarters into his private mansion, converting government land and other
innocent people’s land acquired fraudulently under the pretence of public use,
into his commercial hotel project, etc, etc and sundry corruption allegations
and visible abuse of office. He has indeed by this, thrown an open challenge at
the EFCC and by extension, the Federal government.”
He added “I implore the Federal
government and particularly Ogun State, to show more interests in the OGD -EFCC
affairs; more so now that prosecuting witnesses are being scared off from
appearing in court. This unholy arrangement has already emboldened OGD as
capable of weakening the chances of his conviction.
“Candidly, this current
pretensions and public bravado of a chairmanship contest by OGD is truly aimed
at turning his corruption cases and sundry pending criminal assaults and
killing allegations into cases of political victimisation and assault on the
opposition.
“As much as one calls on the
government to take needed necessary actions by refusing to be cheaply
blackmailed; more importantly, the leaders of PDP need to ensure that our party
and indeed, all of us, are unwittingly not dragged into an avoidable, disgraceful
and infamously criminal corruption saga.”
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