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BREAKING: Buruji Kashamu is dead

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Senator Buruji Kashamu

Senator Buruji Kashamu who represented Ogun East Senatorial District in the 8th Senate is dead.

The Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the 2019 polls passed on Saturday.

He died after complications from battling COVID-19 at the First Cardiology Consultants in Lagos.

In a tribute to the former senator, Ben Murray-Bruce wrote on Twitter. “I have just lost my good friend of forever to COVID-19. Until his death, Sen. Buruji Kashamu and I were inseparable. He died today at First Cardiology Consultants, in Lagos. May his gentle soul rest in peace. I pray his family and loved ones the fortitude to bear this heavy loss.”

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Kashamu was a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Ogun State. He was appointed as the chairman, Organization and Mobilization Committee of the PDP in the South West zone of Nigeria.

In 2018, he was expelled from the People’s Democratic Party, a decision later voided by an Abuja High Court in October 2018.

He was the 2019 Ogun State gubernatorial election candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.

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