Obsanjo and an intelligence officer respectively, were alleged to have
approached Senator Buruji Kashamu, to assist him poison the former
president over their face-off.
The accused persons – Peter Uwakala and Victoria Alaegbu, were said to
have met with the senator at a hotel in Victoria Island, last month,
assuring him that they would also help resolve the political rift
between the duo.
However, after the conversation, Kashamu reportedly lodged a verbal
complaint to policemen at the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, prompting the
Police to swing into action leading to the arrests.
However, during preliminary investigation, sources said the two were
impersonators. The woman said to have introduced herself to the
Senator as Yetunde Obasanjo earlier, was discovered to have no link
with the ex-president.
Photo: Obasanjo and Kashamu
The suspects, it was gathered, during their meeting with Kashamu
allegedly called the former president unprintable names and threatened
to poison him.
According to a Police report, 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.
However the police was able to establish that both Uwakala and 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 5th June 2015 and were
remanded at Kirikiri Prisons. The matter was adjourned to 31st July
2015.
There are indication that Kashamu's reaction to the impostors was
towards settling the face-off between him and Obansnajo , following
report by those close to the duo that the former claimed to have
forgiven the latter.
The fence mending effort may have led to Kashamu withdrawing the
N20billion libel suit against Obasanjo.
When contacted, Kashamu's media aide, Mr Austin Oniyokor said that
that the matter was in court. He however, pointed out that his boss's
conduct "goes a long way to show that despite his political
differences on principles with Obasanjo, he (Kashamu ) does not wish
him (Obasanjo) ill because he respects the sanctity of human life and
also fears God."
—Vanguard
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