Buruji Kashamu
The senator representing Ogun-East Senatorial
District at the National Assembly, Buruji Kashamu, has rejected his suspension
from the Peoples Democratic Party.
He said his suspension in the early hours of
Saturday by members of the National Caretaker Committee of the party was
illegal.
Buruji said he was neither accused of committing
any crime nor asked to defend himself before any committee.
He, therefore, wondered why he would be suspended
by the party without following the rules.
The National Caretaker Committee of the party led
by Senator Ahmed Makarfi had announced Buruji’s suspension, which it said would
last for one month.
No reason was given for the sudden decision of
the party.
But our correspondent gathered that the party
took the decision following the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja,
which had on Wednesday, struck out a suit filed by Kashamu, to stop the party
from taking any disciplinary action against him.
Delivering judgment, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba,
declined jurisdiction to hear the case on merit and struck it out after
upholding PDP’s preliminary objection challenging the competence and validity
of the suit.
The judge described the suit as hasty, premature
and inappropriate for the purpose it sought to achieve.
Buruju, in a statement on Saturday, said, “The
Makarfi-led national caretaker committee, out of self-inflicted desperation,
again erred by illegally suspending me few hours to the elective national
convention that would terminate their ignominious tenure. This bears eloquent
testimony to their characteristic leadership ineptitude. This is a nullity in
law as it offends the principle of ‘lis pendens’.
“This purported suspension, even in real terms,
can only prevent me from contesting in party elections and not bar me from
voting, going by the provisions of chapter 10, section 57(3) of the PDP
constitution as amended.”
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