INDICTED FOR DRUG IN US, ELECTED SENATOR IN NIGERIA.

Kashamu, though the name sounds so being around, still he is being known recently. He was indicted in US for drug trafficking and recently won the senatorial seat of Ogun state.

Buruji Kashamu was little known before he returned home in 2003 from Britain despite a U.S. extradition order to become a major financier of President Goodluck Jonathan's party.

Election results posted late Wednesday identify Kashamu as a senator-elect in southwest Ogun state. Opponents are challenging his victory in court, saying ballots were rigged. Kashamu, 56, hung up the phone twice when the AP called for comment about the drug case on Thursday. Kashamu has said he is "a clean businessman" and that the 1998 indictment by a grand jury in the Northern District of Illinois for conspiracy to import and distribute heroin in the United States is a case of mistaken identity. He has said Chicago prosecutors really want the dead brother he closely resembles. Any way, in a corruption ridden environment like Nigeria, the president elect have vowed to crack down on corrupt practices which is now a major fear for most politicians.