*Iyabo confirms letter; flays denials on social media
LAGOS — With echoes of the open letter to former president,
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo from his daughter, Iyabo,
reverberating nationwide, the daughter yesterday gave
reasons she gave up on her father ever changing.
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo spoke against the background of
mixed reactions from Yoruba elders and politicians on the
import of the letter which she said was the last
communication with her father.
The former president himself was furious when approached
by Vanguard, yesterday, as he hurled invectives at the
newspaper. The exchange between Vanguard and the
former president ran thus:
Vanguard: Sir, we tried reaching you all through yesterday,
to no avail, over the letter written by your daughter, Iyabo,
to you.
Chief Obasanjo: You are a bloody idiot, you have published
the paper and you are now looking for me, you are an idiot,
don’t call me again. When Iyabo finishes you in court….
(hangs up).
Senator Obasanjo nevertheless flayed the orchestrated
attempt in the social media by a network of associates of
her father to separate her from the letter.
Aremo Olusegun Osoba, former governor of Ogun State,
who was cited in the letter, confirmed the meeting between
him and Iyabo in Massachusetts, United States but
distanced himself from the plot allegedly cited by her father
to empower her with the ticket of the All Progressives
Congress, APC for the next round of elections.
Besides, Aremo Osoba, several prominent Yoruba elders
spoke on the development among whom were Afenifere
leader, Chief Rueben Fasoranti, Afenifere bigwig, Chief Ayo
Adebanjo, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, Chief Ebenezer Babatope
and Hon. Femi Kehinde, a former member of the House of
Representatives.
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo had written an open letter to her
father accusing him of being a liar, manipulator, wife-
basher and hypocrite who was desperate for a third term
despite his denials to the contrary.
Following the hoopla over her letter,Iyabo spoke severally
to Vanguard, yesterday. Asked to respond to claims that
she had denied the authorship of the letter written to her
father, Iyabo, who holds a doctorate in epidemology and
now resident in the United States, said:
“No, no, no, that is not true. How can you live by social
media? That is part of the problem with Nigeria, people
want to be flying rumours. I have not told anybody o! It is
early morning here and I just woke up and if I were you I
would just ignore them,” Senator Obasanjo said.
“People are calling me and telling me that they called Baba
but if I say I am not talking to someone (her father), how
can you say you called the person and the person will tell
you what is on my mind?” she asked.
Giving reasons on why she broke off, she said that after a
break from relating with Obasanjo, she found out days ago
that her father would not change from the manipulative
person she had known all along.
“The whole of last year I didn’t speak to him and I just
started speaking to him recently, and the last time he was
trying to manipulate me to say, this, say that. I can’t be
saying no when you say no.
“The last time I spoke to him was three days ago and I
decided that I was not going to speak to him again after
that. That was the communication through which I realized
that this man would never change from manipulations for
himself.”
Dismissing her unsolicited canvassers on social media, she
said:
“I was surprised that they would say that they called Baba,
and I said to myself, are these people mad? How can you
call the person that I said I am not talking to, to ask him
whether I wrote a letter or not and he is going to speak for
me?
“Nobody can say that I told him that I didn’t write it. I am
not a liar. I will not back away from what I wrote and there
is nothing that is there that is a lie. In the last four years
how many of them have spoken to me? They are all mad
people,” she said.
Details later… source http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/gave-dad-iyabo-obasanjo/