Prof. Iyabo Obasanjo, the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said she wants to run for governor of Ogun State in 2027 as a member of the current All Progressives Congress (APC).
She made her announcement today on 103.7FM Eagle7 Sports, an interactive show hosted by Nigerian football star Segun Odegbami.
It was said before that Iyabo came back to politics after around 15 years and joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), which is the party in power, in Ogun State before the 2027 general elections.
Our sources told us that Iyabo, who was the senator for Ogun Central from 2007 to 2011, took part in the ongoing APC e-registration drive at Ibogun, Ward 11, in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state. This made her a member of the ruling party.
In 2011, the famous epidemiologist and former Ogun State Commissioner for Health lost her attempt for re-election to Senator Gbenga Obadara of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
After that, she went back to the United States to continue her studies and eventually became a professor.
The former senator said during the interview that she is going back to politics because her fans “pressured” her to do so.
A bunch of folks who I didn’t put together or shape into a group have been working, I suppose, for two years now. A year ago, they started talking to me and saying, “Look, we think you’re the best candidate.” “We want you back,” she said.
The former commissioner claimed she couldn’t go back to the PDP, where she last ran for office, because the party was going through “all kinds of turmoil.”
Iyabo said that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) was another option for her, but she also said that the coalition party is still working on getting its “ducks in a row.”
She said that everyone who contacted her and helped her get back into politics is now a member of the APC.
The former senator said she talked to a lot of people before deciding to join the APC.
“So, I believe that APC is where I belong. I don’t hate any one person or group in the APC. I know a lot of actors in the APC, and I feel good about all of them.
“I feel more at ease, in fact, than with some of the actors I know in the PDP, and some of them are now in the ADC.” I guess it’s my natural home, then. I feel good about my choice and am sure of it.
“I have a 100% feeling that it’s my natural home,” she remarked.
When asked what her goal was when she returned to politics, Iyabo said she wouldn’t go back to the Senate since she is running for governor of the state.
“I’m not going to be commissioner from now on.” As I mentioned, I’m not even going back to the same party because I believe it’s old and I don’t see the point in it. And I’m not going back to the Senate.
“There’s no need,” as the American would remark. And this is what I told my coworkers when all of this started. I told them that the only thing I would return back to do was be governor.
“And we have begun that voyage. We are going to finish it. That’s the path I’m on. And we mean it very much. She remarked, “We are very committed to it.”
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