Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has continued his onslaught against the personality of PDP Southwest leader, Chief Buruji Kashamu.
The former President who maintains that Kashamu is a fugitive criminal wanted in the USA for drug dealing said he was unperturbed by the latter’s threat to institute a legal action against him for slander amongst others.
Obasanjo speaking through his counsel, Abeeb Ajayi, stated that Kashamu has no “moral name worthy of any protection”.
The former President defended the utterances first made in an open letter written to President Goodluck Jonathan stating that he was willing to defend his statements as the facts were already in the public domain.
Obasanjo in his letter of reply titled “Re: Defamatory publication, injurious and malicious falsehood and unbridled vendetta against Prince Buruji Kashamu’, dated January 14, said the letter “does not suggest any form of vendetta and not malicious or misleading in any material particular”.
He said, “that the letter referred to and dated December 2,2013 to His Excellency, Dr, Goodluck Jonathan, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was authorised by him and the opinion expressed therein, particularly with reference to your client, is in the interest of the country – Nigeria.
“That his letter does not suggest any form of vendetta and not malicious or misleading in any material particular.
“That the portion of the letter, which referred to your client, are correct and not misleading and our client is ready to justify any aspect of the reference, which is already within the public domain.
“That he is not ready whatsoever to make any retraction of the said words, mostly when it was done in good faith and in the interest of the country.
“In the foregoing therefore, we urge you to be most professional in doing the bidding of your client, who only admitted in his open letter to our client, that the allegation against him is that of mistaken identity.
“You have heard the last of our client on this issue, except that he will take advantage of the anticipated legal action to justify the content of the said letter”, he added.