Security operatives on Saturday arrested on suspicion
four aides of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Buruji Kashamu, for
committing elections related offences.
The quartet which included Kashamu’s driver and nephew,
were apprehended in Ijebu – Itele in Ogun East local government area of Ogun
state during the governorship and house of assembly elections.The two others
were alleged to have adorned uniforms of the Mobile Police (MOPOL).
It was gathered that the suspects were riding in an
unmarked jeep said to belong to Kashamu, who doubled as the Senator-elect
on the platform of PDP for Ogun East Senatorial seat.
But Kashamu, who spoke with reporters shortly after casting his vote at Ward 06, polling Unit 26, in Ijebu – Igbo, admitted that his aides were arrested while on a legitimate errand at Itele community; to deliver money meant for the payment of the PDP party agents working at the polls.
But Kashamu, who spoke with reporters shortly after casting his vote at Ward 06, polling Unit 26, in Ijebu – Igbo, admitted that his aides were arrested while on a legitimate errand at Itele community; to deliver money meant for the payment of the PDP party agents working at the polls.
Kashamu said; “that is true but we cannot call it arrest.
I am the South West chairman Mobilisation and Organisation Committee and of
course, I am entitled to INEC pass, but I am a little
bit ill and couldn’t go out.
“And last night when they were trying to distribute money
to party agents, they couldn’t get enough money and I was told that Ijebu East
needed N500, 000 which I gave to them. I sent one of my niece with two
colleagues and a tag on my Range Rover vehicle.”
“So, when they got there, the APC, headed by the former
deputy governorship candidate in the 2011 general election, Tunde Oladunjoye
decided to block them and used their power because they felt they are in power
in Ogun state and that they have the backing of all the military. From there,
they were arrested.”
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