By BASHIR ADEFAKA
Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that Senator Buruji Kashamu, who died on Saturday August 8, 2020 could not avoid the cold hand of death, although he used everything within political, legal and other angles of power to influence his way against justice over allegedly criminal offence during his lifetime.
Obasanjo stated this in a letter of condolence he addressed to the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, commiserating with him over the death of the former Ogun East senator in the Nigeria’s Eigth Senate.
In the letter, the former President called Kashamu a name with which that he was not popularly known, “Senator Esho Jinadu”, to denote the direction of his issue with the dead.
“Please accept my condolence and that of my family on this irreparable loss.
“The life and history of the departed have lessons for those of us on this side of the veil. Senator Esho Jinadu (Buruji Kashmu) 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,” Pastor Obasanjo (Ph.D) preached.
He then prayed for the repose of the soul of the deceased. “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 in the letter he personally signed on his Agbe l’Oba letterhead paper.
Read copy of the Obasanjo’s letter below:
