Former Governor Segun Osoba of Ogun State who is also a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has confirmed that he met Iyabo Obasanjo, the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, during his trip to the United States in September 2013.
Recalling his meeting with Ms. Obasanjo, Chief Osoba said he was in the United States for the 73rd anniversary of the Nieman Foundation Fellowship when he ran into Iyabo, a former senator in Nigeria.
According to Mr. Osoba, who spoke to Sahara Reporters, he was staying at The Charles Hotel in Cambridge when he had a chance encounter with the daughter of the former president who told him her car was parked in the hotel’s basement parking lot.
Chief Osoba said that, after the meeting, Ms. Obasanjo went downstairs to get her car and then drove him to the offices of the Nieman Foundation Center where he had an event.
He said commute took close to an hour, thus they had a lot of time to talk.
Interestingly, Chief Osoba disclosed that Iyabo expressed exactly the same sentiments about her father
contained in the recently published letter (which was later claimed fake).
The former governor, Ms. Obasanjo stated that her father would divide the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) more than it was then after his so-called intervention in the party.
Moreover, hee said Ms. Obasanjo also stated that she had no plans to return anymore to Nigerian politics, a sentiment she expressed in the acerbic letter to her father.
According to Chief Osoba's words, a month later he met former President Obasanjo at the 80th birthday party of Chief Adedoja Adewolu and told him of his encounter with Iyabo in Massachusetts, including her view of his intervention in the PDP.
Former Governor Osoba said he strongly believed that his discussion with Mr. Obasanjo might have prompted the former President to tell his daughter to run on the platform of the APC, another revelation made in her letter.
It would be recalled that early this morning a letter reportedly written by Obasanjo's daughter has gone viral on the Internet. The letter contains emotional accusations and revelations of Iyabo in relation to her father, as a parent and as an official.
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