The Media Aide to Senator Buruji
Kashamu, Mr. Austin Oniyokor, yesterday insisted that the story flying about
that a lady, posing as the daughter of former president Olusegun Obasanjo,
approached Kashamu with the aim of getting payment to kill the ex-president,
was not the true picture of what transpired.
Stating that the news was just a
tip-of the iceberg, Oniyokor, revealed that the lady, Victoria Alaegbu and her
accomplice, Peter Uwakala, were supposed to poison Obasanjo through his drink
while he played the Ayo game. But the
quick wittedness of Kashamu put pay to the plan.
It was gathered that immediately
Obasanjo sighted the lady who posed as daughter, he had slapped her, asking why
she went to his enemy to plot to harm him.
Oniyokor said that the suspects in
their statements never denied approaching Kashamu with such a proposal, adding
that even the Police, according to a Police Report, also confirmed that the
accused persons, committed the alleged offences against them.
The image maker also noted that
there were also an associate and relation of the former President who witnessed
the whole scenario.
Oniyokor said: “All these facts are
contained in public documents before the Chief Magistrate Court 1, Igbosere,
Lagos.”
It will be recalled that on Wednesday, detectives attached
to the Zone II Police Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos State, released information
about the arrest of Alaegbu, who posed as the daughter of Obasanjo, demanding
money from Kashamu in order to poison her supposed ‘father.’
The police said that the lady
presented herself as Yetunde Obasanjo. She was accompanied by Uwakala and allegedly
met the senator in a hotel, where, the lady introduced herself as one of
Obasanjo’s daughters.
The man, who accompanied her,
introduced himself as one of the intelligence officers of the former president.
The duo allegedly called the former president names and urged Kashamu to allow
them to poison him, allegedly in exchange for some money.
A police source said: “Before
they talked about causing harm to Obasanjo, they said they wanted to resolve
the political rift between Kashamu and Obasanjo.”
Rather than grabbed at the
chance to deal with his enemy, the senator who was suspicious of the lady and
man, alerted policemen. While the suspects were still waiting to hear from him,
it was the police they heard from.
The police said: “The suspects met
with the senator at a hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, on May 8, 2015, where
they demanded for an unspecified amount from him in order to harm Obasnajo. The
X-Squad section of Zone II was detailed to handle the investigation and we soon
arrested Uwakala and Alaegbu. We later found out that they were not impersonators.
They told the senator they were going to resolve the political rift between him
and Obasanjo. He said the suspects met him at Best Western Hotel, Ahmadu Bello
Way, Victoria Island, where they made uncomplimentary and derogatory remarks
about Obasanjo. They said the ex-president was bad and wicked, that most of his
workers hate him and wouldn’t mind to poison him if they get the opportunity.”
Oniyokor said the suspects actually
meant business, stressing that all they wanted was to be given money to carry
out their evil plot and then be handsomely rewarded thereafter.
“It should be stated that in all his
life and politics, Kashamu never plotted with anyone to harm a soul. It was
when he could not stomach all that the point man, Nwalaka, was telling him on
the phone each time he called that he agreed to meet him in the presence of one
of the relations of the former president, Princess Folashade Omotade, who had
been trying to make peace between him and Chief Obasanjo.”
Oniyokor noted that the said Princess
Omotade attended the meeting with another aide of Obasanjo whom Kashamu
introduced as his sister and brother. Kashamu urged the impostors to freely say
anything before his brother and sister that he trusted them.
Oniyokor recounted: "It was
before the very eyes of Princess Omotade and Obasanjo’s aide that the lady and
man began to say all manner of things about the former President. They said
they could poison Obasanjo since they were close to him. Nwalaka showed various
pictures of his close engagements with Chief Obasanjo and Victoria who was
introduced as Yetunde Obasanjo, said she had an unfettered access to the former
President and could easily harm him. Nwalaka also spoke of how Obasanjo used to
leave his drinks while playing the Ayo game. Nwalaka said that the
drinks could be easily used to harm him.”
Oniyokor explained that it was after
the duo unveiled their evil plot that Kashamu invited the Police and they were
arrested.
The Police investigation team was
led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Sola Akinyede of the Zone II
Police Command, Onikan, Lagos.
“During the investigation, the
suspects were taken to the Abeokuta residence of the former President who, upon
seeing Victoria, screamed and asked why she would go to his enemy with the
intention of harming him. He then hit her in the head and told the Police to
jail her for five years because if they did not, God knows how many top
Nigerians that would be wasted by them.”
Oniyokor disclosed that it was then
that Obasajo said he couldn’t believe that Kashamu could be so magnanimous.
“The former president then told
Princess Omotade that he had forgiven Kashamu of any grudge he had against him.
She, in turn, prevailed on Kashamu to withdraw the N20 billion libel suit that
he had instituted against Chief Obasanjo,” recalled Oniyokor.
The spokesman continued: “As an
honourable man, Senator Kashamu did and the rest, as they say, is history. The Senator
has dedicated his life to doing good to all manner of people, at all times,
without fear or favour. He is not about to change irrespective of whatever
anybody says or does to him because, according to him, God has been good to
him. He believes that the almighty God will surely reward every man according
to his deeds.”
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