Okupe: Kashamu, PDP South-West leader? Joke of the year

Former presidential spokesman, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has described the declaration of Senator Buruji Kashamu as leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in South-West as the joke of the year.
Some PDP members from the zone on Thursday endorsed Kashamu as the leader of the party in South-West.
Okupe said in a statement on Friday: “Senator Buruji Kashamu is not the leader of the PDP in the South-West. He is not even the leader of the party in Ogun State. He leads an NGO called Omo Ilu which engages in empowerment programmes in the state, mainly in the Ogun-East senatorial district.
“We are a proud and a foremost race in Nigeria. We have enviable political antecedents and capable of presenting nationally credible and acceptable leadership at any and all time.”
He also declared that former President Olusegun Obasanjo remains the leader of the party in the zone and even if he is not available now, there are other leaders capable of leading the party.
Okupe said: “Baba Obasanjo still remains the undisputed and authentic leader of the PDP in the South-West. The fact that he tore his membership card is not tantamount to resignation from the party, an action he has not undertaken to date.
“Tearing of the membership card though a very negative action is undoubtedly a knee-jerk reaction to certain unacceptable or intolerable happenings within the party which can and will be redressed.
“In his temporary absence, we have a collegiate or confederal leadership of eminent and distinguished elders including Chief Bode George, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, Aare Jubril Martins Kuye, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Chief Mrs Apampa, Dr. Lekan Balogun, Chief Richard Akinjide, Alhaji Yekini Adeojo, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, Chief Shuaibu Oyedokun, Senator Iyiola Omisore, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, Governor Ayo Fayose, Governor Olusegun Mimiko, Senator Bode Olajumoke amongst others.”