Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has criticised former President Olusegun Obasanjo over a statement the former leader made about the late Senator Buruji Kashamu.
Kashamu died on Saturday in Lagos of COVID-19 complications.
The lawmaker had faced extradition to the United States for alleged drug trafficking until his death.
In a letter to the Ogun State Government, Obasanjo said Kashamu escaped justice for the alleged crime but could not evade death.
In reaction to Obasanjo’s letter on Saturday night, Fayose tweeted, condemning the former president’s statement.
“I commiserate with the family of Senator Buruji Kashamu for this irreparable loss and pray for the repose of his soul. The Almighty God will console those he left behind,” he wrote.
“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?
“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?
“Nigerians will watch out for Obasanjo’s own end. He should stop forming saint because he is not. He should also remember that his own end will come too and nobody knows how the end will be.”
Obasanjo had in 2014 left the Peoples Democratic Party when he wrote to the then chairman of the party Bamanga Tukur that he would cease to be a PDP member unless the party dissociated itself from Kashamu.
