Kashamu: Backstory Of Obasanjo’s Letter To The Dead By Azu Ishiekwene | Sahara Reporters

From the way he addressed the letter, you could almost guess that he had some difficulty writing it, but Olusegun Obasanjo being Olusegun Obasanjo, he wrote it anyway.

It’s true that he exploited every known legal subterfuge, money and politics to frustrate attempts to extradite him to the US. He seemed to combine the invincibility of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada the Mexican drug cartel boss, with the Robin Hood-like quality of Pablo Escobar, the famous Colombian drug kingpin of the Medellin, who not only laid down the terms of his surrender, but also built and stayed in his own prison.

The former president, loved and hated almost in equal measure, is medium, message and messenger rolled into one. It wasn’t long before the Ogun State House of Assembly became fractured, with the main group backing Obasanjo and the other faction backing Daniel, who was fast becoming a lame duck. No one asked questions about the source of Kashamu’s wealth: not the people who didn’t care to know or Obasanjo who knew but didn’t care. Proof that he knew is available in volume three Page 259 of his memoir, My Watch, where he quoted extensively from a paper on drug trafficking in West Africa by Lansana Gberie. But what Obasanjo knew was obviously not as important as the money he needed.

In the end, the Ogun State PDP became factionalised, fatally undermined from inside to the advantage of the Action Congress of Nigeria candidate, Ibikunle Amosun, who emerged governor.

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