By Adesina Soyooye
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, a daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that at 59 years, going to 60 years, she hardly needs the support of her father to aspire to any office she desires.
Professor Obasanjo who had given politics space in the past 15 years and relocated to the United States of America, recently returned, and decided to pitch her net with the All Progressives Congress, APC.
No sooner did she pitch net with the APC, than she declared interest in the Governorship seat of Ogun State. And she did not do that quietly. She began to fire from all cylinders, taking on anybody that has eyes on the job come 2027.
In an interview with Channels Television, Professor Obasanjo disclosed that her decision to contest the governorship election is a personal one, and not dependent on the endorsement of her father.
She noted that with her status in life, a stage where she can make independent decisions about her career and political future, she cannot depend on her father’s endorsement to get what she wants either in her career or in politics.
She counts herself lucky that at her age, she still has both her parents alive because many people of her age no longer have their parents alive. She says it is a privilege which has made her appreciate the presence of her parents even more.
She said: “I don’t need his (former President Obasanjo’s) support; I’m almost 60. As you’re looking at me now, I’m 59, so I think that at this age—and I tell people at my age—my friends that still have both parents alive are very few. So I consider myself lucky at this age to have both my mother and father alive, and I don’t think at this age, I should be consulting them for everything with my career move. So what I’ve said I know, and my mother will vote for me; that’s all I ask of them.”
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