Buruji Kashamu Exposes Obasanjo..Says He Is Still Taking Him To Court

Former president Obasanjo in his recent letter to President
Jonathan called Buruji Kashamu a criminal. Buruji was in Lagos on Friday where
he granted an interview and still insists on dragging Obasanjo to court by his
cap. He also said he helped Obasanjo fight Gbenga Daniel with almost N3b. Read
all he said after the cut.

What is your reaction to the letter by Chief Obasanjo to
President Jonathan?

The letter that was sent to President Goodluck Jonathan
accusing him of many atrocities and also calling me an unashamed criminal. How
can Obasanjo be calling me an unashamed criminal? What do I have to be ashamed
of when I know that I am not a criminal? When I know that I did not commit any
offence. I have been engaged in genuine business since I was 17, 18 years old.
My hands are clean. This story has been on since 2007 when I married Rosemary
Osula. She was the one who started it. Then from Osula to Gbenga Daniel, then
to Segun Oni, Oyinlola, Bode George and so on. If it is true that America is
looking for me, if it is true that America has case against me, since that 2007
when Osula and I were fighting on the pages of newspaper, they could have come
if they were sure I was the one they were looking for. 2007 till date, that’s
almost six years. The same story continues.

First, for Obasanjo, an ex-president who had ruled the
country three times to have written the letter, complaining that Jonathan
allowed me to move close to him was an acceptance of defeat. It shows that
Obasanjo is afraid of me.

What is giving Obasanjo the power is the soul of the South-west.
We have six geo-political zones in the country. For someone to have the control
of an entire zone, which former president Babangida does not even have, which
no other ex-head of state controls. Only Obasanjo is controlling a zone. This
is what Obasanjo is using as a foundation to negotiate with the Presidency. He
gets benefits as an ex-president, then he also corners slots meant for the
Southwest. That is why you see many people go to his house to bow to him. Those
who want to be ministers, ambassadors and other appointments always go to his
house. He had the PDP structure of the Southwest in his hands. Obasanjo used me
to take control of Ogun State. He had Lagos, Oyo with Akala, Osun with
Oyinlola, Ondo with the late Agagu and so on. All of them under his umbrella
were having southwest meeting with him. 
He introduced me to the late Agagu, Segun Oni, Caleb Olubolade and so
on.

When President Jonathan came to power, he respected Obasanjo
and appointed ministers nominated by Obasanjo. They gave him two ministers in
Ogun State, but he was not pleased. It was after that that he went to Geneva to
speak ill of the Jonathan government.

Jonathan was not fighting Obasanjo. He was just concerned
with how to fulfil his mandate, but because Obasanjo saw that he could not
control Jonathan, that is genesis of their problem.

Obasanjo is making it look like Jonathan is not performing,
but we Nigerians are not foolish. We know what Obasanjo has done to damage this
country. Have you ever seen any ex-president in the whole world that can write
this kind of letter to bring his country into disrepute? But Obasanjo is not
ashamed. He thought he did that to rubbish Jonathan, but he is doing it to
damage himself.

Obasanjo is playing God to have said Jonathan should not
have more than one term. Jonathan never told Obasanjo he wanted the presidency.
He was just a lucky, easy going man. They wanted him to betray Alamieyeseigha,
but he refused. He is loyal and competent. Obasanjo is merely taking advantage
of Jonathan’s gentlemanliness.

How dare Obasanjo say Jonathan should spend one term? Is
Obasanjo God to dictate someone else’s progress?

Recall that after Obasanjo left prison, it was Chief Orji
Uzor Kalu and others who funded his campaign to be president when he said he
didn’t have money to contest.

And he told those who were working for him to get power that
if they assisted him, he would only spend one term in office. After first term,
Obasanjo begged Atiku Abubakar, to allow him do second term. As soon as he got
what he wanted, he turned against the vice president. There is nothing he did
not do to destroy Atiku. But God did not allow him. After second term, he
started the third term agenda, bribing lawmakers before they stopped him. Which
credibility does he have to say Jonathan must not run for second term?

Check Obasanjo’s history. He doesn’t want anyone to be
richer or better than himself. If you are rich, you must go look for talakawa
clothes and appear as if you are poor, that is when Obasanjo would not hurt
you. If you go to Obasanjo looking rich and well to do, you are finished. He
would ruin you.

He said I am an unashamed criminal. When I was working with
him, when I spent N3 billion to fight Gbenga Daniel and took PDP structure and
handed over to him, he did not see me as unashamed criminal.

Yet, this was the same man that former EFCC boss Mallam Nuhu
Ribadu described corruption under his watch as worse than that of late General
Sani Abacha, according to United States cable obtained by Wikileaks.

The report stated that a meeting which the former US
Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Robin Sanders, had with Mallam Ribadu to discuss his
removal from the EFCC, Ribadu told the US ambassador that Obasanjo was good at
covering his tracks while admitting that corruption was worse under Obasanjo.

Ribadu was quoted as saying that former President Obasanjo
knew how to play the game. ‘Although he created the EFCC and understood its
importance for him with the international community, Ribadu explained, that by
far and even more than the Abacha days, corruption under Obasanjo’s eight years
was far worse.’

In Ogun where I spent N3 billion fighting Gbenga Daniel.
Daniel dragged Obasanjo on the floor. I came in, joined Iyabo Obasanjo. We were
fighting Daniel. I would go to Obasanjo’s house and office to take
instructions. When we took the PDP structure from Daniel, when were in the
court in Abuja, Daniel used same delegates list, one for PDP and the other for
PPN. He planned that if he failed in one, he would use the same list in the
other party, which is illegal. Then I alerted INEC that they should not allow
the same delegates list. We went to court in Abuja. Daniel then carried placard
with his supporters that the case must return to Ogun State. Because of that,
the chief judge transferred the case to Ogun State. After the transfer, we
believed that if we kill the PPN, the fight would be between PDP and ACN.
Because of that we fought tooth and nail with Obasanjo suggesting we use
illegal means to have our way. But after we fell apart, all the PDP cases that
they lost in the Southwest, we would file case and his boys believed Obasanjo
had power, he could influence the judiciary. They would not fight. They think
Obasanjo is above the law. Before they woke up, we had removed Segun Oni. That
was when they started fighting.

How can Obasanjo say I’m an unashamed criminal? You know
what that means? He is saying I am stronger than him. That I have scattered his
structure and that America should come and help him to remove me.

Since they have been calling America, they have their
embassy here, but that country would not do anything illegal. The American law
even says if you request for the extradition of a person, you must get that
person to stand trial within two and a half years. If you fail, then the
indictment is null and void. If I decide to go to America today, there is no
case against me. I won the case in 2003 in London and came back to my country,
the US government did not appeal. Between 2003 and now is about 11 years.

Which extradition is Obasanjo even talking about? If he is
not an old man bullying for nothing, how would he not consult a lawyer and do
proper checking to get his facts right before issuing his letter.

Have you ever seen other ex-heads of state, Gowon, Shagari,
Buhari, Babangida, descending so low to behave the way Obasanjo is doing? What
makes Obasanjo think that Nigeria belongs to only him?

I was the one who rescued Obasanjo when Gbenga Daniel wanted
to rubbish him. I was always in his house. Iyabo, his daughter was moving with
me. She would come to my hotel. We would be feeding Baba Obasanjo with details
of our activities. When we took over the PDP structure from Daniel, Obasanjo
called us one day and said we should not work for Jonathan for 2015. We asked
why and he said Jonathan doesn’t listen to him; Jonathan doesn’t take
instructions from him and Jonathan tells him lies. And we asked what kind of
lies? Obasanjo said when Gbenga Daniel locked up the Ogun State House of
Assembly during the crisis involving the lawmakers, Jonathan was in China and
called him to say the action was unacceptable, that within 24 hours the
Assembly would be re-opened. Obasanjo said despite the promise, the Assembly
remained locked for two months. That in his own state it was an insult to his
integrity. He was boiling with anger that day. He vowed that Jonathan would not
spend more than one term in office. That he would fight President Jonathan to
the end.

After we took over the PDP structure from Daniel, Obasanjo
brought Adetunji Olurin to come and be governor in Ogun State. I told him that
people would not vote for Olurin who is in his 70s. Baba said he doesn’t want
to hear that. That we should go and work for Olurin. At the end of the day
Olurin lost. Then the appointments started coming. Then Obasanjo started fencing
me off from the structure. He nominated those who did not suffer, who did not
belong to the party for the appointments. Eventually, it was during that time
that Baba Obasanjo said we should not work for Jonathan. So, I went and called
all the party elders in the state and we all decided  to stay on our own and not go to Baba again.
That’s how Baba created his illegal PDP exco. That was when we began fighting
his illegal exco in Southwest. When Obasanjo began to fight the President,
everybody started fighting. That was how Oyinlola was out. Segun Oni was out.

If I had this relationship with Obasanjo, how can he be
saying this rubbish about me? Tell me, does Obasanjo have family? Anybody who
cannot settle his own family, how can he settle Nigeria? You forgot that during
his regime, his own son exposed him.

Obasanjo told us Jonathan is the best. He said he was clean
and not corrupt. That we should go and vote for Jonathan. How can he turn
around and malign the same Jonathan. Does Obasanjo want to be president again?
He has had his time. He is in his eighties, he should leave the stage.

With these allegations against you by Obasanjo, are you
planning any action against him?

Let me tell you. I have been in court with Obasanjo. I took
Obasanjo and Gbenga Daniel to court recently. This one will be a libel case.
It’ll be battle to finish. I will drag Olusegun Obasanjo without cap on his
head into the witness box. For libeling me, he would pay.