Senator Buruji Kashamu has denied allegations that he plans to decamp to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Daily Post reports.
Kashamu was rumoured to have had plans to defect to the ruling party because of his support for the federal government’s anti-corruption war.
He had earlier called on Nigerians to be patient with President Muhammadu Buhari as he hailed the anti-corruption war of the president.
The senator representing Ogun east senatorial district, in a statement on Sunday, December 20, said he was not supporting the war because he planned to defect from the PDP.
He said: “Our people have suffered for too long because of a greedy few who amass our commonwealth for themselves and their families. Corruption by whatever colouration is bad and inimical to our growth as a nation.”
Kashamu also said: “Let me make it abundantly clear that I am not in any way romancing the APC. If truly politics is about the people and a contest of ideas, I cannot understand why any politician that is worth the name would see an idea that will benefit the people and not support it, irrespective of political leanings. I will support good initiatives, just as I will criticise bad ones.
‘We must realize that the elections and campaigns are over. Whether we were elected on the platform of the PDP or APC, our people trusted us with their mandate because they know that we would represent them well and fight their course. It is a sacred responsibility that we must not betray.”
In a related development, the Ogun state senator on Thursday, December 17, threw a party for his supporters after the Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan dismissed the tribunal judgment that nullified his election and declared him the winner.
Kashamu’s supporters were very excited about the senator’s court victory, and he showed his appreciation by handing some cash to them and thanking them for their support
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