Late Senator Buruji Kashamu is to be buried today by mid-day.
The late senator who represented Ogun East Senatorial District died of COVID-19 on Saturday in a Lagos private hospital.
According to his family, he will be laid to rest in his hometown of Ijebu Igbo in Ogun State according to Islamic rites.
Meanwhile, President Olusegun Obasanjo has reacted to the death of the ex-senator.
In a statement by his spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo said despite using politics to maneuver the law to escape justice, Kashamu could not escape death.
President Obasanjo’s press statement read thus:
“Senator Buruji Kashamu 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” said Obasanjo
However, a former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has condemned the former president’s comment on Buruji Kashamu‘s death.
On Twitter, Fayose said: “I also condemn the statement made by former President Obasanjo on his (Kashamu) death.
It is regrettable that Obasanjo could say what he said about Buruji Kashamu after his death and when he can no longer question him. Why didn’t he say that when Kashamu was alive?”
