1. Buruji Kashamu was a Nigerian politician who served as a Senator representing Ogun East in the 8th National Assembly.
16 Facts About Buruji Kashamu
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Senator Kashamu was the vice-chairman of the Senate Committee on States and Local Government.
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Buruji Kashamu was a chieftain of the People's Democratic Party, PDP in Ogun State.
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Buruji Kashamu was appointed as the chairman, Organization and Mobilization Committee of the PDP in the South West zone of Nigeria.
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Buruji Kashamu was the 2019 Ogun State gubernatorial election candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.
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Buruji Kashamu died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria on 8 August 2020.
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Buruji Kashamu was born in Ijebu-Igbo Ogun State, Nigeria on 19 May 1958.
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Buruji Kashamu started his education at Ansarudeen Primary School, Ijebu Igbo and left in 1972 to complete his primary school education at St John Modern School, Lagos.
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Buruji Kashamu then attended evening classes at Igbobi College while working as a licensing agent.
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Buruji Kashamu later went to London where he took courses in Business Management at Pitman College, London.
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Buruji Kashamu was awarded an honorary PhD by the unaccredited, diploma-mill Cambridge Graduate University, located in Massachusetts, at a privately organised ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Buruji Kashamu contested the Ogun east senatorial seat and beat his closest rival with a poll of 99,540 votes against Prince Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressive Congress who polled 84,001 votes to clinch the senatorial seat.
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Buruji Kashamu was the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 Ogun State gubernatorial election and lost against Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress coming in a distant 4th.
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In 1998, Buruji Kashamu was arrested in the United Kingdom on drugs-related charges after trying to enter the country with $230,000 in cash.
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Buruji Kashamu appears in vivid detail in Nicholas Fillmore's memoir, Smuggler.
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Buruji Kashamu died from complications of COVID-19 in Lagos on 8 August 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.