Kashamu in another alleged assassination attempt case, ex-Gov Daniel says the senator wants to kill him

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Buruji Kashamu representing Ogun East senatorial district, has again been accused of an assassinate attempt.

The allegation was leveled against him by a former governor of his state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, who petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris; and the Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Mr. Lawal Daura, alleging an attempt to assassinate him by the senator.

In the petition by Daniel entitled, “Assassination Attempt on my Person; Main Suspect, Senator Buruji Kashamu,” he explained that five hefty men, two of whom were in military uniforms and three others in black clothes, came to his residence in Maitama, Abuja on Thursday around 9:13pm, and demanded that they be allowed entrance.

“The gatekeeper peeped through the pedestrian gate, asking for their identities and mission, they refused to wind down their car window. The gatekeeper then opened the pedestrian gate to continue with his enquiries.

“They asked for his boss ‘OGD’ (the acronym for my full name, Otunba Gbenga Daniel) and he told them that I was not at home. The five men instantly alighted from the car and pushed the gatekeeper inside the compound. They started beating him, saying he was lying and that they had information that I was at home.

“They thereafter asked him how many policemen were in the house and he told them that there were five. They asked him to show them where the policemen were. He led them to the Boys’ Quarters, where they found one of the policemen lying down. Then they asked for his service gun.

“He told them that it was not with him, then they pushed him inside the toilet and locked the door. They returned to the gatekeeper and told him to start showing them round the house, and where the other policemen were. They insisted that they had accurate information that ‘OGD’ was in Abuja and at home,” the petition read in part.

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According to the former governor, the supposed marauders were armed with pistols and shotguns, while one of them, who allegedly had a bigger gun, stood at the gate to watch as the operation continued.

He added in the petition he said was to alert the police authorities about the “evil intention” of Senator Buruji Kashamu, “I want to inform the Nigeria Police and security agencies that they should put Buruji Kashamu on security watch list and under strict surveillance.”

Meanwhile, the senator has reportedly denied the allegation and said that the former governor was merely lying against him. He added that he has never been involved in violence in his entire life.

However, this is not the first time Kashamu is being accused of a plot to assassinate. Only last month, an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court dismissed an application brought by Kashamu, seeking to stop the police from investigating him in a case of alleged attempt to assassinate another senator, Oladipupo Kessington.

Mr Kessington had also accused Kashamu of attempting to take his (Kessington’s) life.

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