Fayose Attacks Obasanjo For Criticising Buruji Kashamu In Death

Former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has berated ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo after he criticised the late Buruji Kashamu in death.

Kashamu, a former Senator representing Ogun East, had died of coronavirus (COVID-19) complications on Saturday.

The deceased had fought his extradition to face drugs-related charges in the United States for more than two decades.

He had been arrested and indicted on drugs-related charges in the United Kingdom in 1998, but was subsequently acquitted and released on the grounds that he shared a striking resemblance with his alleged drug-dealing brother whose identity was mistaken for him.

Obasanjo, in a letter to the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, condoled with the state government and Kashamu’s family for their loss.

The former president, however, noted that the deceased avoided justice on criminal allegations but could not stop death from knocking on his door.

Obasanjo wrote, “Senator Buruji Kashamu in his lifetime used the maneuver of law and politics to escape from facing justice on alleged criminal offence in Nigeria and outside Nigeria.

“But no legal, political, cultural, social, or even medical maneuver could stop the cold hand of death when the Creator of all of us decides that the time is up.

“May Allah forgive his sin and accept his soul into Aljanah, and may God grant his family and friends fortitude to bear the irreparable loss,” he said.

But responding in a series of tweets on Saturday night, Fayose condemned Obasanjo for speaking ill of Kashamu even in death.

The former Ekiti State governor tweeted: “It is regrettable that Obasanjo could say what he said about Buruji Kashamu after his death and when he can no longer question him. Why didn’t he say that when Kashamu was alive?

“Can Obasanjo say in good conscience that he did not at some point collaborate with Kashamu and most of the things he (Kashamu) did politically were not with his collaboration?

“Nigerians will watch out for Obasanjo’s own end. He should stop forming saint because he is not. He should also remember that his own end will come too and nobody knows how the end will be.”