Facts have emerged why Alhaji Buruji Kashamu a drug baron and fugitive from the United States law, who is inexplicably a SENATOR of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has been fighting the critics of President Muhammadu Buhari and APC.
On the 25th of September 2009, Alhaji Kashamu’s name came up in a Court ruling by Judge Charles R. Norgle of the United States District Court in Chicago, Illinois in which the Judge upheld Kashamu’s indictment by the U.S government on drug trafficking charges and conspiracy to smuggle heroin into the country. Kashamu was described by the U.S government as the kingpin of a strong drug cartel.
Having realised that the matter is far from being over, and coupled with the United States government insistence on Buruji Kashamu that he's the one they are looking for and not his brother, he's been doing all possible to remain in Nigeria. The government of the U.S still regards Buruji Kashamu as a drug kingpin and a fugitive from the United States law, and that the U.S has never withdrawn its warrant of arrest against the Ijebu-Igbo born drug lord.
In order to stay protected from extradition, Kashamu has been corruptly forming unholy alliance with any central government in power.
Between 2003 and 2011, during the power struggle between Former President Obasanjo and Gbenga Daniel, former Governor of Ogun State, Buruji Kashamu claimed to have spent N3 billion to help Obasanjo defeat Daniel. He was Obasanjo’s right hand-man, doing the political dirty jobs for him with his illegal drug money. Mr. Daniel was eventually forced out of the PDP prior to the 2011 elections and moved his supporters to the Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN.
In 2013, when the going was politically rough between Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, Kashamu pitched his tent with President Goodluck Jonathan against his political godfather, Obasanjo; reason being that Jonathan as a sitting president has power to prevent his extradition back to United State. Buruji has the Drug money to throw around, but needs the Federal Power for protection from extradition.
Buruji eventually forced his estranged political godfather, Obasanjo out of PDP, using Presidential backing. While leaving PDP, Obasanjo said, "I cannot and I will not subscribe to a wanted habitual criminal being installed as my zonal leader in the party; a criminal for whom extradition has been requested by the US Government.
“I will consider withdrawing my activity with PDP at Local, State, Zonal and national levels until the anomalous and shameful situation is corrected.” The former president sent a copy of the one-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan.
Immediately after the 2015 presidential election that saw Buhari emerged as the president-elect, Kashamu switched allegiance from President Jonathan who still at that time had power to effect his extradition to Buhari/Tinubu camp who was just coming to take over power.
Information has it that Kashamu was one of seceret financiers of APC Ogun. He played double game, financing APC and PDP during the presidential election, reason why President Jonathan administration toward its tail end decided to let NDLEA extradite him. Save for the intervention, and pleas of a Southwest Governor, Kashamu would have by now been cooling his feet in the US Prison.
According to information gathered by Nigerian Mirror, Buruji's alliance with APC is not without a prize. For him to stay in Nigeria and be shielded from extradition, he has been tasked to depopulate, disorganize, and pull down PDP structure. These he has been doing with the help of former PDP scribe, Prof Wale Oladipo, former Auditor of the Party, Fatai Adeyanju, and some PDP members who are because of money loyal to him in southwest.
These divisive and malevolent activities of Buruji, according to Cheif Effiong Bassy, a PDP chieftain are not unnoticed by the Party leaders; reason why the leadership of the party in its wisdom used the National Convention to curtail his ludicrous deeds.
Chief Effiong Bassy said, "If Buhari is serious about fighting corruption and obeying court orders, NDLEA should be allowed to start the extradition process of Senator Buruji Kashamu.
" He is a stain to the Nigerian Senate. It is unthinkable, and unimaginable how a drug baron who is wanted internationally for crime committed in US could have made it to the Nigerian Senate, when warrant of arrest is still pending on him. This must have been one of the reasons David Cameron said Nigerian leaders are Fantastically corrupt," Effiong said.
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