Ogun 2027: Iyabo Obasanjo Drums Support For Adebutu, As She Returns To PDP

By Akinwale Kasali

As reported by this medium about a week earlier, less than three months after she left embattled Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, Daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has returned to the PDP.

She has also backed the PDP Governorship Candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, to win the 2027 Election in Ogun State.

This is coming weeks after she lost the APC Governorship Ticket to Senator Olamilekan Adeola popular as Yayi, who was chosen as the Party’s Consensus Candidate.

Though the former Senator representing Ogun Central Senatorial District had congratulated Yayi on his emergence as the Party’s Consensus Candidate, she said it was necessary to leave the Party as she was not carried along in the consensus arrangement made by the Party.

She faulted the process that led to the emergence of Yayi, as the Party’s Consensus Governorship Candidate.

According to her, despite assurances that stakeholders would be consulted before a consensus candidate was adopted, the party leadership failed to engage her before announcing Adeola as its preferred aspirant.

Barely a week after her resignation from the APC, she has pitched her tent with the PDP, by making a return to the Party that made her.

The former Ogun State Commissioner  for Health announced her return to the PDP during the unveiling of Alhaja Yemi Sowunmi-Kolapo, former Group Business Editor of The Punch Newspaper as the Party’s Deputy Governorship Candidate.

She was warmly received by party faithful amid cheers and applause.

Speaking at the programme, Senator Obasanjo expressed confidence in the electoral prospects of the PDP governorship candidate, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, declaring that the party would emerge victorious in the 2027 governorship election.

While reserving detailed comments until her official reception into the party, Obasanjo hinted at unresolved grievances stemming from her experience in the APC.

“I actually have a lot to say. There are many people that we shall call out, but I will not say anything now until you organise my official welcome back into the party,” she said.

She also threw her weight behind Adebutu’s governorship ambition, saying: “I want to thank our incoming governor from 2027, Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu, because he has really tried to become governor of the state for the first, second and third time. But this time, God is saying that he will be our next governor now that I am joining the party.”