The President of Arewa Youth Development Association, Salisu Mohammed, has condemned the call by a Northern Group for the extradition of Senator Buruji Kashamu, representing Ogun West, on the platform of the People’s Democractic Party (PDP) for allegedly being wanted in the United States of America to face trial for drug trafficking.
It would be recalled that the youths, under the aegis of Northern Youths Movement (NYM) via its Chairman, Mallam Ishaya Jato, challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to either expedite the extradition of the PDP senator from Ogun State, Prince Buruji Kashamu to the United States of America to face trial for drug trafficking or forget about his anti-corruption fight.
Reacting to the call at a press conference held at Zaranda Hotel in Bauchi on Thursday, September 1, 2016, Salisu Mohammed described it as not only baseless and unpatriotic but “a great disservice to Senator Kashamu.”
He said, “Kashamu is an astitute politician elected by the good people of Ogun West to represent them as a Seantor of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. If someone can contest and win an election as a senator to represent his people in the National Assembly, really this man must have been loved by his people.
“This faceless group which claim to be speaking on behalf of the youth from the North is not known in the Northern part of the country.”
Mohammed said that the group are not speaking on behalf of the North, stressing, “what they are saying is not right because Kashamu is an astitute politician so the issue of extraditing him to the United States does not arise.”
He said that the group which claimed to have spoken for the Northern youth ought to know that the matter of Kashamu vs the law enforcement agency is still in the court and hence they have no locu standing to speak on the matter which is already before the court of law.
