• Former lawmaker blames incumbent president for Nigeria’s parlous state
Finally, Iyabo Obasanjo has regained her voice and fabled bluster. Like a rat squeaking in outrage to bait a cat from the comfort of sewer pipe, Iyabo recently called out President Muhammadu Buhari, chiding him for failing to turn the fortunes of the country around.
The first daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, condemned President Buhari, claiming that almost everything in the country is upside down, on his watch. In an interview, the former lawmaker said the incumbent president’s focus on oil and gas at a time when the world has moved on to other growth and commerce areas, is an indication that change has obviously not come.
Iyabo, who now lectures at a university in the US, said she no longer follows developments in Nigeria on a regular basis. Since her embarrassing loss of the Senate seat during the 2011 general election, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has been absent on the political and social scenes. Well, even before her loss, the veterinary doctor-turned-politician and eldest daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo had not been a fixture on the social scene.
By virtue of her father’s position, however, she became a sought-after acquaintance by many especially after her appointment as Commissioner for Health by former Ogun State Governor Otunba Gbenga Daniel. Perhaps because of the shame of being trounced so badly in her father’s native land, Iyabo, whose marriage to Jimi Bello, crashed many years ago, relocated abroad on the pretext that she was going to Harvard for further studies.
