Former senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello has explained that her decision to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) was influenced by the fact that members of the party were the ones who stayed in contact with her during the more than 15 years she spent away from active politics.
Obasanjo-Bello made the revelation on Friday while appearing on Morning Brief, a programme on Channels Television.
The daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo said she has not belonged to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) since 2011, the year she lost her bid for re-election to the Senate.
She explained that after leaving the Senate, she attended a leadership programme at Harvard University and later focused on completing her PhD.
“I have not been involved with the PDP as an active member or even as a member since 2011. I don’t see it as leaving one group to join another. I had no party.
“The 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’t think anybody in the current PDP as it is, or the ADC as it’s trying to be, communicated with me or asked, ‘How are you doing?’
“So for me, that was the fundamental reason. Yes, it’s all politics, but politicians are still human beings.
“So 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, ‘We care about you, we like you, we love you as a human being. How are you doing?’” she said.
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