APC never wooed me, PDP ‘betrayed’ me – Iyabo Obasanjo
Gossip • 4d ago
Former Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Iyabo Obasanjo, has explained the reasons behind her decision to leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Obasanjo, daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, insisted that she was neither pressured nor persuaded by the APC to defect. According to her, the decision was entirely personal and based on her dissatisfaction with the PDP.
She recently returned to active politics after about 15 years and formally joined the APC ahead of the 2027 general elections in Ogun State.
Obasanjo had previously lost her re-election bid in 2011 after being defeated by Gbenga Obadara of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). Following that loss, she relocated to the United States to focus on her academic ca...