Former senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello said she joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, because its members were the only ones who kept in touch with her during her more than 15 years away from active politics.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo disclosed this while featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Morning Brief on Friday.<\/p>\n
The daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo noted that she had not been a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) since 2011, after she failed to win re-election to the Senate.<\/p>\n
According to her, she went to a leadership programme at Harvard University, after which she worked on her PhD.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have not been involved with the PDP as an active member or even as a member since 2011. I don\u2019t see it as leaving one group to join another. I had no party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other part of it is that when I was away, the people who reached out to me, the people I was talking to, are all in the APC. I don\u2019t think anybody in the current PDP as it is, or the ADC as it\u2019s trying to be, communicated with me or asked, \u2018How are you doing?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSo for me, that was the fundamental reason. Yes, it\u2019s all politics, but politicians are still human beings.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it was a decision made from that personal reason, people reached out to me, they were talking to me, not to lobby me, but just to say, \u2018We care about you, we like you, we love you as a human being. How are you doing?\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello said she joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, because its members were the only ones who kept in touch with her during her more than 15 years away from active politics. Obasanjo disclosed this while featuring on Channels Television\u2019s Morning Brief on Friday. The daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo noted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":196691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy"],"yoast_head":"\n