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Obasanjo Drags Dead Buruji Kashamu From The ‘Grave’

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Fayose Roasts Obasanjo Over Statement On Dead Buruji Kashamu

Obasanjo has berated dead Buruji Kashamu for “running away” from justice.

NewsOne Nigeria had Senator Buruji Kashamu died of Coronavirus. Before his death, Buruji Kashamu was the immediate past senator representing Ogun East at the Nigerian Senate.

Buruji, who represented the senatorial district in the 8th National Assembly, was 62 years old. Senator Buruji Kashamu died on  Saturday, August 8, 2020, at First Cardiology Consultants in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city.

Reacting to Kashamu’s death, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo sent a message of condolences to Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun on the death of the Senator.

Obasanjo says Dead Buruji Kashamu escaped justice

Obasanjo who described Kashamu’s death as a great loss in a letter on Saturday, however, lamented that “Kashamu in his lifetime used the manoeuvre of law and politics to escape from facing justice on alleged criminal offence in Nigeria and outside Nigeria.”

The letter reads as thus; “I have received the sad news of the death of Senator Esho Jinadu (Buruji Kashamu), a prominent Ogun State resident. I extend my heartfelt condolences to my family and friends.

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

“But no legal, political, cultural, social, or even medical manoeuvre 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,” the letter on dead Buruji Kashamu read.

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