Fayose Late Kashamu Obasanjo
Former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has threatened to send Olusegun Obasanjo back to prison if he becomes the president of Nigeria.
The lingering feud between Obasanjo and Fayose was recently aggravated again by Olusegun Obasanjo’s comment about late Buruji Kashamu.
Kashamu, a former Ogun senator and Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, died on Saturday after battling with COVID-19 for more than two weeks at the First Cardiology Consultants Hospital in Lagos
Obasanjo, in his condolence message to Ogun State Government, said while Kashamu’s death was “sad”, his life and history left “lessons for those of us on this side of the veil.”
Obasanjo made other comments which many considered uncomplimentary to the late senator. The comments of the elderly statesman could be his personal fair appraisal of the late senator’s political lifestyle, but it is viewed as taboo in Africa to talk I’ll of the dead.
Fayose in his spontaneous reaction to Obasanjo’s statement pointed out that it was “regrettable that Obasanjo could say what he said about Buruji Kashamu after his death and when he can no longer question him.”
“Can Obasanjo say in good conscience that he did not at some point collaborated with Kashamu and most of the things he (Kashamu) did politically were not with his collaboration,” Fayose said in a series of tweets on Sunday.
Obasanjo in his reaction to the criticism stated that people can mourn him the way they like after his death.
He asked Nigerians criticising him over his comments on Kashamu to learn from the lives of the deceased and live well.
Fayose in a recent television interview said that he is praying that one day God will give him the chance to become the President of Nigeria and he will send former President Obasanjo back to prison.
