which of them is kashamu in the picture? They all look like CASH-AMU(ARMED)-CRIMINALS to me

Irrespective of series of criticism, the NANS leadership is in right direction as regards the award given to Senator Buruji Kashamu. This is a man that was alleged of various issues but not found culpable of one. He is a leader with great compassion for his followers. He love his people and willing to use the last pant of his blood to defend their course. His a philanthropist per excellent and he has not stolen Nigeria's commonwealth like many scam change agent most people are celebrating today. Leave Buruji Kashamu alone please.

Senator Buruji Kashamu is a great philanthropist. If the so called saints who have been in positions of authority are unwilling to ameliorate the sufferings of the masses, they want you to sell your father's landed properties before you can go for higher education and yet when u graduate they will rather prefer to use u as tools for their reelection than to allow you to be gainfully employed.Even if you are related to them they will not help,they will make fake promises to you until you are tired of meeting them, you will definitely quit by yourself.Not to mention about if you are not related to them you can never gain access to them except during election periods. Now coming back to SBK he is man of the people, he likes spending money,whether you know him or not once you get access to him ,which is very easy especially during weekends in his home town,if your problem is costing him millions, he asks you few questions by himself to determine the genuineness of the problem. Whether you are Hausa,Ibo,or Yoruba he doesn't want to know, he solves the problem for you. Be it medical operations, educational problems etc.Now coming back to the issue at hand,If he has allegations bordering on drugs in the U.S as alleged or in any part of the world, the question is that when was that? The next question is during OBJ years in office if the offence was committed earlier than then, why wasn't he prosecuted, if found guilty handed over to the U.S who made the allegations? I am not holding brief for SBK or anybody for that matter but the truth is that he is presumed innocent until adjudged guilty by a competent court.Let's just leave this man alone and tell other politicians to emulate him by supporting the masses rather than playing politics with our lives.Another politician that i see who really has the interest of the masses at heart apart from PMB,MKO,is SenatorJMK a former senator from Ago Iwoye Ogun State with exception of our national leaders during the regional govt of the 60s and 70s.Nobody is a saint,according to the Holy Bible all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. If properly governed Nigeria deserves to be the best economy in the world.

SENATOR KASHAMU’S POLITICAL STATURE:
THREAT TO APC

We read with dismay, in the dailies, the ranting of the APC, Ogun State chapter, over the NANS Award to Senator Buruji Kashamu the Senator representing the Ogun East Senatorial District, Ogun State. We concluded that its reaction is envious of the intimidating posture and wide frontier of Prince Buruji Kashamu in political sphere.

The Peoples Democratic Party, Ogun State chapter has observed that some apologists and members of the APC had hitherto run foul their mouths on the award saga. The earlier critics, like the APC Ogun State Chapter , condemned NANS for given the Golden Man of the Year Award to Senator Kashamu describing it as a honour misplaced.

For the avoidance of doubt, we are very proud of Senator Buruji Kashamu as one of our foremost leaders in the Party not limited to Ogun State but across South West, Nigeria.

We appreciate his personality, mentoring, kindheartedness and philanthropy. We are very bold to say that Senator Buruji Kashamu enjoys the respect, love and goodwill of his people in Ogun state and beyond. This irrebutable fact is a pointer to his landslide victory at the poll at 2015 National Assembly election.

Senator Kashamu like notable APC leaders such as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, etc. had stood trial over alleged crime without conviction. They have also been honoured severally by their people and communities. Why then the hullabaloo about Senator Kashamu's award ?

Though, Kashamu was arraigned in two British Courts over alleged drug related offences and was acquitted. Similarly too, the Nigeria Government , on the purported request of the American Government, attempted to process his extradition which an High Court , Abuja , justiceously stalled. Senator Kashamu afotiori , before the law, remains perpetually innocent until contrary is proved. Why then should any reasonable person think that Senator Kashamu should, now, be treated as an outcast or a condemned criminal?
The APC lampoon further shows the politics of lies, propaganda , hatred and pull PDP down of APC.

The APC, in Ogun State knows and realizes that Senator Kashamu is the most formidable threat it has. It is aware also that the Senator is ever ready to provide leadership and use all his God’s given resources to unseat the retrogressive, APC, ruling party in the State.

APC in Ogun state does not tolerate opposition. This explains why it is presently challenging elections of all the Nine(9) PDP House of Assembly members, one(1) House of Representative and one(1) Senate.

To us, we appreciate the leadership of NANS for its consideration for the person of Senator Buruji Kashamu. We also commend NANS for its non-partisanship, courage and independence. Gone in the past, when such awards would only be restricted to ruling Party (APC).

We are bold to say that the award was a big surprise to the awardee as he has never met any of the NANS representatives before and they (NANS) did not request for anything nor give any condition before giving the award to the Senator as being alleged or thought of in the imagination of the APC.

NANS should please note the assurances and determination of our distinguished Senator, Prince Buruji Kashamu to continue to do more to promote educational system and wellbeing of students generally.

Conclusively, we see the grandiloquence of APC as a mere rhetoric and polemics of a drowning Party at least in Ogun State.

Comrade Niyi-Osoba,
Director of Orgarnisation,
PDP, Ogun State.