Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu has said nobody can send him out of the Peoples Democratic Party.

He said this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.

He also dismissed reports that he was planning to defect to another party.

He alleged that the reports linking him to the alleged defection were being spread by one of the aides of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State.

“I wish to state without mincing words that the misleading report linking me with the move was concocted and spread on social media by Mr. Lere Olayinka, who is an aide of Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose,” he said.

“While it is true that the 14-month leadership crisis that engulfed our party started as a result of Fayose and ex-Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s attempt to perpetrate impunity and cut short the tenure of elected party executives, I mediated between the two leaders, pointing out their virtues and mistakes as someone who has related with them over time.

“I proposed a political solution to the leadership crisis. But when all that failed, they went the whole hog of the judicial system.

“It is also on record that when the Supreme Court gave its judgment, I congratulated the National Chairman, Senator Makarfi, and other members of the National Caretaker Committee (NCC) on the verdict, and urged all aggrieved party members to unite and work with them in the overall interest of our party.

“Fayose and ex-PDP governorship candidate in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, then got their illegal puppets, Sikirulai Ogundele and Bayo Faforiji, into the NEC meeting until they (including Omisore) were sent out by the National Chairman, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, upon the observation raised by a member of the Board of Trustees, Alhaji Shuaibu Oyedokun.

“These men never took part in state congresses held before the national leadership crisis broke out in May, 2016, but were handpicked by a member of the House of Representatives from Ogun State, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu and Omisore, both of whom are nursing governorship ambitions.”

He urged all aggrieved party members to unite and work with the new leadership in the overall interest of the party.

He said he was surprised that Fayose could criticise the olive branch extended by the party’s national leadership to some members of the party.