It appears that the “sweep of discipline” taking place in the PDP has claimed another victim as yesterday, the chairman Chief Doyin Fakoya, of a senatorial district announced the suspension of former Governor Gbenga Daniel and 12 others for alleged romance with the Labour Party in the state.
Fakoya stressed that the party in the former governor’s Ward 12 decided to effect his suspension in order to restore discipline to the party.
In his statement he said “As of today (Thursday), I am the Chairman of the PDP in Ogun East Senatorial District. I have got a copy of the letter that Otunba Daniel has been suspended. He was suspended by ward 12 Sagamu constituency 2,” he said.
Fakoya, who was flanked by the party’s chairmen in Sagamu, Ikenne and Remo-North LGAs, said a disciplinary committee set up to look into the allegations against Daniel and the 12 others found them guilty.
He said, “Otunba Daniel was the one that brought the Peoples Party of Nigeria to Ogun State; he is financing Labour Party at the moment. You cannot be in two parties at the same time; you cannot be in PPN, PDP and LP at the same time.
“Otunba Daniel is like any other citizen that jumps into any political party; he was fortunate that he governed Ogun State for eight years. Is that the reason for him to be in three political parties at the same time?
“Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the national chairman of our part, the PDP said we should put discipline back into the party and his (Daniel) ward said it has suspended him from the party. So be it, he is not God, he has been suspended by ward 12 Sagamu constituency 2. I have got the copy of the letter, I have sent a copy of the letter to the state secretariat of the PDP and I have sent one to the press.”
The party has released the report of the eight-man disciplinary committee led by Gbenga Salako. The report dated June 3, 2013, contained the suspension of the ex-governor and the 12 others accused of not attending the party’s meeting at the ward level for a long period of time. In this report Daniels was also accused of defecting to PPN just before the 2011 general elections