I Did Not Want To Go Against My Dad – Iyabo Obasanjo Reveals Why She Delayed Joining APC

Former Ogun State Commissioner for Health and daughter of ex-Nigeria President, Iyabo Obasanjo, has opened up on the reason she did not join the All Progressives Congress (APC) earlier.

Naija News recalls that Obasanjo returned to active politics after about 15 years and joined the ruling APC ahead of the 2027 general elections in Ogun State.

Speaking on Wednesday while featuring on Frontline, a current affairs program on Eagle 102.5 FM Ilese Ijebu, Obasanjo disclosed that she could have quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) long ago but was unable to do so since her father, Olusegun Obasanjo was a party chieftain at the time.

She said, “APC never approached me. I know there’s a lot of things out there in terms of APC, reaching out to people to join and all that. I never was approached.

“So, for me, it was, I made a choice to join. So, to kind of say, oh, APC pressured me to join and things like that, there was never anything. I analyzed the situation. For me, the primary reason was that I left (PDP) because I wasn’t comfortable in the party.

“I could have joined the other party then, but my dad was then still a chieftain in that other party. It would be like I was joining against him. Now, he doesn’t belong to any party, he tore his party card and I’m a free agent. It wasn’t even that I wasn’t a free agent then, I could have done anything I wanted on my own. But it’s the image it presented that I was trying to avoid.”