In his petition dated 15th April, 2015 to the National Human Rights Commission to intervene, Buruji said the plot to forcibly extradite him was leaked to his lawyer, Ajibola Oluyede by another lawyer (name withheld), a friend to Adoke on a flight from Lagos to Abuja.
According to Buruji's lawyer, Oluyede who authored the petition on behalf of Kashamu, the friend of Adoke witnessed an occasion when former president Olusegun Obasanjo was mounting pressure to the minister to extradite the senator-elect to the United States.
Part of the petition read,
"On a flight to the Federal Capital, Abuja from Lagos sometime in October 2014 a colleague and friend of our principal partner, R.A. Oluyede, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) who is also very close to the AGF, informed Mr. Oluyede of the tremendous pressure that Chief (Olusegun) Obasanjo was bringing upon the AGF for the extradition of Prince Kashamu and that, in one discussion between the AGF and Chief Obasanjo, witnessed by him (the SAN), Chief Obasanjo had boasted that he was making arrangements with some US officials in the region to have Prince Kashamu abducted and flown in a private plane to the US.
"He advised that Mr. Oluyede tells Prince Kashamu, known widely to be his client to be very careful. Prince Kashamu's enquiry about this information revealed that indeed, there had been moves made by US officials within the region, to secure the assistance of the head of the INTERPOL division in Nigeria, Mr.Solomon Arase, a Deputy Inspector General of Police, for the arrest and delivery to the US officials of Kashamu for transportation to the US without following the due process required by the Nigeria Extradition Act"
Kashamu has since sued the Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and 11 others over the alleged plot to extradite him to the United States.
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