The embattled Ogun-East Senator in the National Assembly, Buruji Kashamu, has withdrawn a N20.1 billion libel suit he instituted against former President Olusegun Obasanjo before a Federal Capital Territory court in Abuja.
The presiding judge, Justice Valentine Ashi, struck out the suit on May 26, 2015, following the notice of discontinuance of the suit filed by the plaintiff.
Kashamu, a Peoples Democratic Party chief in Ogun State, was said to have anchored his decision to withdraw the suit on “an ongoing settlement talks” between him and Obasanjo.
But the lawyers who are representing the former president in the suit said they were not aware of such talks.
Kashamu’s new disposition comes few days before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court commences hearing on the extradition application that was entered against him by the Federal Government.
The extradition application marked FHC/ABJ/CS/479/2015, which was filed on May 28, was predicated on a request by the Embassy of the United States of America for the Nigerian government to surrender Kashamu to face one count of drug related charge before the United States District Court for the Northern Illinois, Eastern Division.
Kashamu.had earlier begged the National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, to protect him from alleged plot by former President Obasanjo to connive with security agencies and bundle him to the US to face dog related charges.
It will be recalled that Kashamu had on December 5, 2014, convinced Justice Ashi to restrain Obasanjo from publishing his auto-biography entitled ‘My Watch’.
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