Buruji Kashamu | |
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Senator for Ogun East | |
In office 9 June 2015 – April 2019 Serving with Lanre Tejuosho Joseph Dada | |
Preceded by | Sefiu Adegbenga Kaka |
Succeeded by | Ramoni Olalekan Mustapha |
Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on State and local Governments | |
In office 9 June 2015 – April 2019 | |
Succeeded by | Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi |
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Born | Buruji Kashamu 19 May 1958 Ijebu-Igbo, Western Region, British Nigeria |
Died | 8 August 2020 Lagos, Nigeria | (aged 62)
Political party | People's Democratic Party |
Residence(s) | Abuja (official) Ogun (private) |
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Buruji Kashamu (; 19 May 1958 – 8 August 2020) was a Nigerian politician who served as a Senator representing Ogun East in the 8th National Assembly. Ogun East covers eleven local government areas: Ijebu North East, Ijebu North, Ijebu-Ode, Ijebu East, Ikenne, Odogbolu, Remo North, Sagamu, and Ogun Waterside. Senator Kashamu was the vice-chairman of the Senate Committee on States and Local Government.[1]
He 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.[2] In 2018, he was expelled from the People's Democratic Party,[3][4][5] 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. He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria on 8 August 2020.