Iyabo Obasanjo, daughter of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, has officially confirmed her membership in the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing the party as her political “natural home.”
In an interview with Nigerian football legend Segun Odegbami on 103.7FM Eagle7 Sports, Iyabo said her return to active politics after roughly 15 years was motivated by sustained encouragement from supporters.
“Like I told you, a group of people who I did not bring together, I did not form them into a group, have been working, I think, for two years now.
And then they started talking to me about a year ago, saying, ‘Look, we think you are the best candidate. We want you back,’” she said.
The former Ogun State Commissioner for Health explained that she ruled out a return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or the African Democratic Congress (ADC), citing greater comfort with political actors within the APC.
She also noted that the ADC “doesn’t have its ducks in a row yet; they’re still working on it.”
“I feel more comfortable, actually, than with some of the actors I know in the PDP, and some of them are now in the ADC
. So I think it’s my natural home. I feel quite confident and happy to have made that decision,” Iyabo said, adding, “I have an absolute 100% feeling it’s my natural home.”
Recall that Iyabo Obasanjo lost her re-election bid in 2011 to Senator Gbenga Obadara of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and subsequently returned to the United States to continue her academic career, eventually rising to the rank of professor.
