How Kashamu Saved Ex-President Obasanjo From Being Poisoned By Daughter
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Policemen from Zone 2 command, Onikan, Lagos, have arrested two persons who
allegedly posed as daughter to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and an
intelligence officer respectively, to Senator Buruji Kashamu, with a plan to
poison the former President.
The suspects identified as Peter Uwakala and Victoria Alaegbu, it was
gathered, were arrested following a complaint by Kashamu at Zone 2, last
month.
The suspects, it was gathered, met with Kashamu at a hotel in Victoria Island,
Lagos, on May 8, 2015,where they allegedly called the former presidents
unprintable names and offered to poison him. In response to the complaint
lodged by Kashamu, the command reportedly swung into action and arrested the
suspects.
According to a police report obtained by our correspondent: “The fact of the
case was that the complainant alleged in his verbal complaint that the duo of
Peter Uwakala and Victoria Alaegbu falsely represented themselves as an
intelligence officer and daughter to the former President Obasanjo
respectively to him under the pretence that they were going to resolve the
political rift between him and Obasanjo.
“He stressed that the duo met with him at a hotel, where the latter who had
collected N500,000 from his younger brother, made some uncomplimentary and
derogatory remarks about the former president, while the former introduced
herself as Yetunde Obasanjo to him. He added that he had to report to the
police upon his suspicion of foul play by the suspects. “Investigation
conducted revealed that the duo were impersonators.
From the foregoing, it was established that both Peter Uwakala and Victoria
Alaegbu actually committed the offences alleged by the complainant and have
been charged accordingly in line with the prescription of the law.
“The suspects were arraigned before Chief Magistrate Adeola Adedayo at the
Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos on June 5, 2015 and were remanded at Kirikiri
Prisons. The matter was adjourned to July 31, 2015.” It was gathered that
Kashamu's gesture of reporting the matter to the police in spite of their
political differences made Obasanjo to say he had forgiven Kashamu of any
grudge he had against him.
It was gathered that the rapprochement led to Kashamu withdrawing the
N20billion libel suit against Obasanjo.
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