4th May, 2015
Akin Kuponiyi
Buruji Kashamu, businessman and senator-elect of Federal Republic Of Nigeria to represent Ogun East Senatorial District of Ogun state of Nigeria has alleged that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria is planning to kidnap him and forcefully extradite him to the United States.
Kashamu also alleged that Obasanjo is working with the acting Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase and US security operatives in Nigeria and other west African countries.
He made this claim when he filed a suit to a federal high court in Lagos seeking to forestall his extradition to the US by Obasanjo the leader of his “political enemies”.
In the suit filed, he stated that he was lured to join politics because of his philanthropic activities through his OMO-ILU Foundation. But his political activities has brought him some powerful enemies including his erstwhile political leader Obasanjo.
He noted that Obasanjo has made several attempts to stop his progress politically including the use of intense propaganda, that he had been convicted for drug related offences in the United Kingdom or United States.
Buruji alleged that his lawyer, Ajibola Oluyede informed him in October, that on a flight to Abuja from Lagos a colleague of his Chief Obla SAN who is very close to Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) informed him of the tremendous pressure that Chief Obasanjo was placing on the AGF to extradite him and in one of the discussions between the AGF and Chief Obasanjo witnessed by Chief Obla, Obasanjo boasted that he was making arrangement with some US officials in the region to have him abducted and flown in a private plane to US. Chief Obla then advised Prince Oluyede to warn him to be very careful.
Upon discreet inquiries he found out that indeed there have been moves by US official within the region to secure the assistance of the head of Interpol division in Nigerian former Deputy Inspector Of Police, Mr Solomon Arase now acting Inspector General Of Police for his arrest and delivery to the US officials for transportation to US without following due process require by the Nigeria Extradiction Act.
Arase was alleged to have confirmed that one Doma Chabot approached him in January 2015 and he has been in communication with her and US Directorate of Homeland security Headquarters in Washington DC since then. The said Ms Chabot is Attache Department of Homeland security immigration and customs enforcement at the American Embassy Route. Des Almedies BP 49 Dakar Senegal.
On the 1st of April, 2015 he received Koye Ijaduoye one of the chieftain of PDP from Remo North Local Government who introduced himself as a former Personal Assistant to Dapo Abiodun the APC candidate in the last senatorial election visited him at Ijebu Igbo, his country home, and told him to telephone Dapo Abiodun to sympathize with him on his loss in the election but to his surprise Dapo Abiodun brushed aside his sympathy and told him that Chief Obasanjo had assured him that plans had been concluded between certain US security official and some Nigeria security officers to arrest him during his swearing-in as senator in May 2015 and transport him to the US in a private plane to face trial before judge Norge and the second option was to get the Inspector of Police to withdraw his Police protection thus being accessible and would be vulnerable.
To buttress this averment Buruji attached to his affidavit, an affidavit dated 1st April, 2015 sworn to by Koye Ijaduoye. Buruji alleged further that, a similar scheme was executed by Chief Obasanjo against a Nigerian citizen Mr Lanre Shitu who was abducted and transported to US on 27th November, 2000 even after a Nigerian court had refused an extradition request, as the request was only a cover for the real plan which was the abduction.