KashamuPresident Muhammadu Buhari should expedite the extradition of the Peoples Democratic Party senator from Ogun State, Mr. Buruji Kashamu, to the United States of America to face trial for alleged drug trafficking or forget about his anti-corruption fight, northern youths said in a statement sent to TheSimonAtebaNews.
The youths under the aegis of Northern Youths Movement (NYM) said in a release signed by its Chairman, Mallam Ishaya Jato, that President Buhari cannot claim to be fighting corruption while at the same time he is seen to be “protecting a fugitive like Senator Buruji Kashamu because of politics”.
They said Kashamu should go and face express trial before a US District Judge in Chicago, Judge Charles Richard Norgle.
President Buhari, they added, has no excuse for keeping Kashamu in Nigeria till this moment.
The youths argued that the NDLEA had said in May 2016, through its Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Ofoyeju Mitchell, that the agency’s men invaded Kashamu’s residence in Lekki, Lagos State in response to the extradition request formally made to the Nigerian government by its American counterpart.
They accused the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, as the brains behind President Buhari’s refusal to accede to the extradition of Senator Kashamu.
They said the duo of El-Rufai and Amaechi were using Kashamu to destroy the PDP in furtherance of their 2019 Presidential and Vice Presidential ambition.
The NYM reiterated its position that said Buruji Kashamu was afraid of being extradited to the USA to face trial for alleged drug trafficking and he is ready to do anything to kill the PDP for El-Rufai and Amaechi.
The group, which called for immediate extradition of Senator Kashamu to the USA, said President Buhari must not allow anyone to cast aspersion on his anti-corruption fight by hobnobbing with a fugitive just because of presidential ambition.