By Daud Olatunji

ABEOKUTA—Over 700 delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party from Ogun East senatorial district,  yesterday, rejected the planned attempt by the party’s National Working Committee to field former governor of Ogun State,  Otunba Gbenga Daniel as their    senatorial candidate.

The delegates, led by their chairmen from all the nine local government areas insisted that the Chairman of Mobilisation and Organisation of the PDP in South West,  Prince Buruji Kashamu, who had been elected during the primaries remained their senatorial candidate.

Daniel and Kashamu had contested for the Senate ticket which was later won by Kashamu after Daniel had allegedly withdrawn from the race two days to the primaries.

The chairmen who spoke in turn on behalf of the delegates from the senatorial district, threatened that any attempt to replace Kashamu with Daniel or anybody else would spell doom for the PDP.

Elder Solomon Osinbajo, who moved the motion to counter the planned move by the party in Abuja to substitute Kashamu with Daniel, urged the state chairman to forward their complaints to the national body.

Addressing the protesting delegates during the senatorial district meeting held at Ijebu-Igbo,  the state chairman of the party, Bayo Dayo, described Kashamu as the best hand in the party.

He confirmed that there were moves at  the national level of the party to substitute Kashamu’s name with Daniel’s  whom he said did not participate in the primaries which produced Kashamu as the candidate.