Kashamu Blasts Obasanjo Over ‘Evil People’ Comment In Church, Calls Fmr President Pontius Pilate

OBJ-KashamuThe sole-financier of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State and Chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the party in the South West, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has renewed his verbal war with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his comments that politics should not be left in the hands of “evil people”.

In a statement yesterday entitled ‘Obasanjo: The Pontius Pilate’, Kashamu said: “Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is quick to point a finger at people, forgetting that the four others are pointing at himself.

“He fittingly plays Pontius Pilate who seeks to avoid personal responsibility for the execution of Jesus Christ yet he was liable. At other times, he plays the ostrich, living in self-denial.

“Last Sunday, February 16, 2014, he was in his usual elements while addressing members of his church, Chapel of Christ the Glorious King, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, that ‘they should not leave politics to the evil ones’”.

The PDP chieftain, who Obasanjo once described as a wanted fugitive from the law and habitual criminal noted that “From the tone of the so-called exhortation, it is clear to the discerning who and where the message is directed.

“It is against this background that I will attempt to juxtapose his administration with the present, so that Nigerians can see for themselves who the evil ones are.

“Obasanjo, more than any other individual in the country had the opportunity to turn the fortunes of Nigerians around, but he bungled it”.

While wondering where the former president derived the moral justification to refer to some people as evil, Kashamu asked “if it is a good thing when a sitting President influences contractors who do business with government to launch and build a multi-million naira library in his name? Is it a good thing when a sitting President suddenly becomes a shareholder in companies privatised by his administration? Is it not unconscionable that a man, who by his own admission was stone-broke and suddenly came into wealth while superintending over our commonwealth could refer to some people as evil?”