Ogun East Senator, Senator Buruji Kashamu has said that the United States wants another person for the drug related offences not him.
Kashamu also faulted the federal government’s appeal for his extradition to the US. He explained that FG appealed through the Attorney General of the Federation, an office that is yet to be occupied.
Kashamu accused a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Emeka Ngige of seeking to draw attention from the illegalities of the federal government through National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on the plot to extradite him.
In a statement by the media aide, Mr. Austin Oniyokor, Kashamu said “Emeka Ngige claims that these rejected allegations are the basis of an appeal he has filed against orders and judgments of the Federal High Court.
“The mischief is clear because no Notice of Appeal has been served on any party, yet Ngige has released documents to the media which he claims are Notices of Appeal. This is clearly wrong.
“Contrary to the lies being peddled in the media, information available to us revealed that the two lawyers were not briefed by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice – at least as of Friday when they appeared in court.
“If they say they were, we challenge them to produce the authorisation and evidence of payment made to that effect. We do know that they were hired by Abiodun, who is desperate to get through the back door a mandate he could not get in a free and fair election.
“The court did not merely find that the evidence was not enough; the court positively found that it was another person (not Senator Buruji Kashamu) that committed the offence and proceeded to describe the person in its judgement. It is that person the US authority wants not Senator Kashamu.”