After Nasty Fallout With Obasanjo Over Jonathan, Daughter Iyabo Joins Hands With Father To Push Out Buhari

After a nasty fall out with her father in 2013 over how then President Goodluck Jonathan was running the affairs of the country, Iyabo the daughter of former president Olusegun Obasanjo has sided with her father on recent moves to stop the re-election of incumbent Muhammadu Buhari.

Obasanjo in a special statement attracting great attention urges Buhari not to re-contest position as President but rather go home and rest. The former president scores the current president very low in its performance.

After a very civil official response, supporters of Buhari had dredged up his daughter’s response to a similar communication to Buhari’s predecessor Jonathan in which she branded her father a great pretender, self-serving and an ego maniac.

She had vowed never to have any contact with Obasanjo in the letter with intimate details that greatly took away points from the person of the former President.

Iyabo’s letter penned in 2013 had been exhumed to knock her father in 2018 by Buhari’s supporters.

But the former President’s daughter who relocated abroad after failing to retain her Senatorial election in the 2011 election would have none of that.

She issued a statement to Vanguard Newspaper yesterday – Saturday, January 27, 2018 – siding with her father in his assessment of the Buhari administration and summation that the President “go home and rest”.

Iyabo stated in part that “Those who republished the old letter should have spent time to respond to the content of the said statement which, among other things, called on President Buhari to join the rank of retired elder statesmen in 2019.

“I would think this was appropriate and even unnecessary advice, given the serious medical problems he has had over the last few years.”

“I have had no connection with his administration or to the previous one after I left the Senate in 2011, and to try and use me and my name as some excuse is shameful.

“I agree with the contents of the open letter and like all people that wish Africa well, hope that Nigeria someday comes out of its death spiral to become a leading nation in the world.”

“It is tiring to continue to be part of the Nigerian conversation when there is no positive impact to it.”

“I really do not want to be part of it, as I have found over and over again that speech and words are wasted on people who have no understanding of the responsibility on us as black people on this planet.”