CITIZENS COMPASS—Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has justified her defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) branding the leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as “idiots”.
The former Senator recently disclosed this during an appearance on Frontline, a current affairs programme on Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese Ijebu, Ogun State.
“I think they’re idiots, if you can put it that way,” she declared bluntly. “If elections are about people and you don’t reach out to the people who are prominent in your party, how do you win elections? You can’t,” she said against the background of the claim that party leaders only reached out to her during elections.
“APC never approached me,” she said. “I made a choice. I analyzed the situation. I left PDP because I wasn’t comfortable there.”
“The only time I got a call from them was when elections were coming,” she revealed. “Somebody from the presidency reached out. How transactional is that? I dropped the phone. You only remember people when you need them.
“I left and nobody cared to ask why,” she said. “At the level I left, nobody cared. The individuals there are not people I want to associate with.
“If you can’t care for people in your own leadership team, how can you care for the ordinary person on the street?”
Obasanjo who lost her Senate re-election bid in 2011 to Gbenga Obadara of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), said, “I’m a free agent.”
