KASHAMU BLASTS OBASANJO

Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Organization and Mobilization Committee in the Southwest, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has challenged former President Olusegun Olusegun to produce the letter by the United States government requesting for his extradition or shut up.
 


Kashamu denied Obasanjo’s claim that he was a criminal and leader of Southwest PDP. The former president had in his latest letter to the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, dated January 7 declared himself suspended from the party until something was done to take away Southwest leadership of PDP from Kashamu. He accused Kashamu of being a criminal wanted abroad and wondered how he remained in PDP as its Southwest zonal leader.

But in his reaction to Obasanjo’s letter, Kashamu said he did nothing to deserve the attack of the former president and expressed confidence that he would triumph at the end of the day. His words: “But if the truth be told, I am not the architect of whatever political woes that he is suffering today. Like David, I am just a tool in the hands of the Almighty Allah (Subhanau wa tahala). I am too small to confront a Goliath like him but for the Almighty Allah who is the supporter of the suppressed and the oppressed.

Kashamu also denied being the leader of the party in the Southwest, saying “I am just one of the party’s foot soldiers in the zone.”

On the issue of his alleged indictment by the United States, he said there was no request for his extradition.  “For the umpteenth time, there is no request for my extradition for any offence whatsoever. I have challenged him to produce the request for extradition, if there is any. Indeed, contrary to his lies that I am wanted in the United States for some offences, the purported and over-flogged case is that of mistaken identity, for which I had been tried and discharged after my innocence was established by the British courts. I am already in court in the US asking that the earlier accusation (not conviction) against me be quashed. That process is ongoing,” he maintained.