The battle between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his former political associate, Buruji Kashamu, has entered another phase ─ with an Abuja high court stopping the publication of the retired general’s memoirs titled “My Watch”.
The book, which recounts Obasanjo’s eight years in power between 1999 and 2007, is believed to contain uncomplimentary remarks about Kashamu ─ whom Obasanjo has been engaged in a public fall-out with.
Kashamu is accused of drug pushing and recently lost a case in the US seeking to stop his trial, which has been on for close to 16 years.
The chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) denied the allegations, saying even Obasanjo allowed state agencies to testify on his behalf in a UK court to clear his name when he was president.
Kashamu, who heads the PDP mobilisation committee in the south-west, last week filed motion no. FCT/HC/M/2392/2014 at an FCT high court seeking an ex parte injunction restraining Obasanjo from publishing the book.
Granting the injunction, Justice Valentine Ashi, in an order dated December 5, 2014, ruled that “the defendant, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, whether by himself, his agents, servants, privies or any other person by whatever name called and howsoever described is hereby restrained from publishing or cause to be published in the yet to be published book “My Watch” or any autobiography or biography and any extracts of same, by whatever name called or howsoever, titled, pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice hereof.”
Justice Ani also ordered that “the defendant, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, is further restrained whether by himself his servants, agents, privies by whatever name called or howsoever described from further writing, promoting, publishing or causing to be published or printed or circulated or otherwise publishing of and concerning the plaintiff the statements contained in The Daily Sun of 12/12113. Vol 10 at pages 47-49 and The Leadership Newspaper of 12/12/13 at pages 3 to 8 which statements are alleged to have reproduced the letter written by the defendant to the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria titled “BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE” or similar statements pending the determination of the Motion on Notice hereof.”
The Motion on Notice is fixed for hearing on Wednesday, December 10.
if Kashanu thinks that he has nothing to hide for nigerians, he shouldn’t have stopped the former leader not to publish his book through a legal means, but to my own understanding i believe all the so called our leader, political top ranking officer and others that suppose lead nigerians right were busy diverting their sense of making life meaningful for masses and busy with an irrelevant things.
Both kashamu and Obasanjo knows what thier game is up to but it is left to them to make it public if wish they are to do so.
If their story is real there is no cause for Kashamu stopping Baba Obasanjo not to publish all he has in his momoirs,,, but God knows the best.
wea using COURT to circumvent JUSTICE.. dia is GOD ooo OGA KASHAMU