Real Reason Buruji Kashamu-Adebutu Kessington’s Phone Call Was Leaked
There is no gainsaying the fact that the Chairman of Premier Lotto, Chief Adebutu Kessington, is one of the top businessmen in the country.
But long before the advent of online betting, the Ogun State-born billionaire had been at the forefront of older generation lottery enterprises that catered for low-income earners.
However, for days now, many have passed judgment on the person of the Odoole of Yorubaland over the leaked phone conversation between him and the late Senator Buruji Kashamu who passed on, recently.
In the video, the late billionaire could be heard telling Adebutu that he was ill and was also asking for forgiveness.
Also, in the telephone conversation, he had asked for a chance to right his wrongs.
Since the video of Baba Ijebu talking to Buruji went viral, it has generated mixed reactions across the country.
A source close to the businessman disclosed to Society Watch that Adebutu decided to record the conversation based on the late Buruji’s past antecedents of being “slippery.”
“Baba Ijebu was never aware that the late Kashamu was in the hospital. He called the very day he was taken to First Cardiology Hospital. Baba was shocked when he saw the call. This was the same person that had battled him and his business. So, he needed to have evidence,” said the source. The source disclosed further that Baba Ijebu, as fondly called, never had any intention of leaking the video.
But, according to the source, Adebutu had to come out with it when some unscrupulous elements went to town with the rumour that he had a hand in Buruji’s death.
“His intention was not to release the video until these reprobate people came out with the unfounded theory that he had a hand in Kashamu’s death.
“So, to prove that he has forgiven him, he had to show to the world the video,” the source added.
It is doubtful if any keen watcher of politics in the South-West, particularly Ogun State, could have forgotten so soon the war of words between Kashamu and Ladi Adebutu, son of Sir Adebutu, in the build-up to the governorship election in the state in 2019.
Kashamu, it would be recalled, had insisted he was the PDP candidate and got all the court orders to shut out Adebutu from the race, despite the efforts of older Adebutu to get his son on the ballot.
But even many months after the election had been contested and won by those whom Providence had chosen to place in various political positions in the state, it showed that Kashamu was in a kind of war with the family. Evidence of the unresolved political differences emerged again in February, when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the leading anti-graft agency in the country, was said to have gone after Adebutu, over tax fraud, following a petition written by the late Kashamu.