PHOTOS: See What Alleged GEJ Money Caused In Ogun State

What could be described as mayhem almost happened in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital on Wednesday, March 19, 2015, as some PDP’s chieftain engaged in a free for all fight over an alleged money reportedly given to them by President Goodluck Jonathan for his second term re-election campaign.

According to PM NEWS report, about 708 PDP campaign co-ordinators drawn from the 236 wards across Ogun State almost lynched the South West Zonal Secretary of the party, Chief Pegba Otemolu, for refusing to share the Jonathan’s money.

It was reported that trouble started when the National Auditor of the party, Alhaji Fatai Adeyanju, and one Chief Pegba Otemolu failed to release the fund allegedly meant for the state co-ordinators to campaign for President Jonathan’s re-election.

PM NEWS reporter gathered that a 5-hour meeting held at a hotel on Quarry Road in Abeokuta, to sensitise all the 708 coordinators ended in a shouting match which resulted in the attack on the national officers of the party.

 

Sources at the meeting stated that trouble started when the national Auditor told the coordinators that the fund meant for them was not available at the meeting.
One of the co-ordinators, who pleaded anonymity, said that Adeyanju informed them that the money had not been deposited in the designated account.
It was gathered that when the co-ordinators knew the Auditor was lying, they consequently held the two party leaders hostage and insisted that they would not allow them to go until they release the fund meant for them.

The two party leaders were held hostage for hours after which some political thugs escorted Otemolu out of the hall and he quickly entered his waiting Honda Pilot SUV, the report stated.

But an attempt by the driver to whisk away his boss resulted in an accident which left one of the co-ordinators from Sagamu seriously injured.

The report added that the injured man is currently being treated in an undisclosed hospital in Abeokuta.

Investigation revealed that the incident sparked off anger as the other aggrieved co-ordinators pounced on Otemolu and bundled him out of his car which had hit the median and hit another parked car on the other side of the road.

It was gathered that Adeyanju took to his heels when he saw that Otemolu and other PDP chieftains had been roughened up by the aggrieved co-ordinators.

An attempt to get confirmation of the incident from the secretary of PDP in Ogun state, Chief Semiu Sodipo, proved abortive as he declined to speak on the matter.
This is happening two days after mixed reactions trailed allegations that some traditional rulers from the South-West were financially induced with foreign currencies by President Goodluck Jonathan during his recent visit to the zone.

While some leaders traced the allegation to the APC, with the claim that the APC was equally involved in inducing leading monarchs, Governor Babatunde Fashola on his part affirmed that the money allegedly received by the monarchs could change the face of infrastructure in any state.

Leaders from the South-West who vented their anger over the allegation included Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue, Senator Femi Okurounmu, national publicity secretary of the Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, national coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams and the Lagos state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

In reaction to the allegation, Ayo Adebanjo described it as cheap propaganda, saying the accused monarchs cannot be easily bought over.