Tag: kashamu
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Court voids PDP’s expulsion of Kashamu, Ogun Chair
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Apo, Abuja has set aside the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) expulsion of Senator Buruji Kashamu (Ogun East) and Ogun State Chairman of the party, Engr Adebayo Dayo. Justice Valentine Ashi, in a ruling on Wednesday, held that purported expulsion was unlawful because it was done…
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2019: PDP writes INEC, DSS, Police over expulsion of Kashamu, others
The National Headquarters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has formally written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Department of State Security Service (DSS) and the Police Command in Ogun State, notifying each of them of the expulsion of Senator Buruji Kashamu and three others from the party. Recall that Senator Kashamu representing Ogun…
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Ekiti poll: Hold Fayose, Makarfi for PDP’s defeat – Kashamu
Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District (PDP) on the floor of the Senate, Kashamu Buruji has heaped blames on Governor Ayodele Fayose and former chairman of the caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmed Makarfi for the loss of the party in the July 14 Ekiti governorship to the All Progressives Congress, APC.…
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Extradition: Kashamu heads to S’Court, seeks overturn of A’Court ruling
The senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Mr. Buruji Kashamu, has headed for the Supreme Court seeking to overturn last Friday’s judgment of the Court of Appeal, which reversed a restraining order that he secured in 2015 against the Attorney General of the Federation and several law enforcement agencies in the country. Kashamu had in…
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Kashamu not above the law, can be arrested – Appeal Court
The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal on Friday nullified a ruling by the Federal High Court (FHC) which prohibited the arrest of Buruji Kashamu by Nigerian law enforcement agencies. The court said the senator is not above the law and should be arrested if there is a need. The appeal court panel led…
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BREAKING: Appeal Court reserves ruling on Kashamu’s extradition
The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the Federal Government seeking the extradition of the senator representing Ogun East, Buruji Kashamu, to the United States of America. The Federal Government claimed to have received a request by the US Government to deliver Kashamu up for prosecution for his…
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Court fixes March 8 for hearing on Kashamu’s extradition
The Court of Appeal has fixed March 8 for the adoption of final argument in the extradition suit involving Senator Buruji Kashamu (PDP, Ogun). The Federal Government is seeking an order of the court to extradite the serving senator to the United States of America for trial in an alleged drug related offence. The court…
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Kashamu rejects suspension, says he has right to vote at convention
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 not…
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Court rejects Kashamu’s suit to stop PDP’s disciplinary action
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday struck out a suit filed by the senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, to stop his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, from taking any disciplinary action against him. Delivering judgment, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba struck out the suit after upholding PDP’s preliminary objection challenging its competence…
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Presidential ambition: ‘Fayose is cantankerous, bent on destroying PDP’– Kashamu
The Senator representing Ogun East, Senator Buruji Kashamu, Thursday rubbished the 2019 presidential ambition of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose describing the governor as a confusionist. Kashamu also labelled Fayose as the number one destroyer of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The lawmaker, who reacted to Fayose’s presidential campaign launch in Abuja, noted that the…