•Why she won’t reconcile with her estranged father
She is not a simple Bedouin neither is
she some invisible wife or scion of the backwaters, yet when Iyabo
Obasanjo clocked 50, she refused to make a show of it.
Iyabo is the
first child of former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo but when
she turned 50 last Thursday she quietly celebrated the milestone in the
United States of America without pomp or pageantry. Iyabo currently
lectures Global Health and Contemporary African Politics at the Virginia
Military Institute in the United States of America (USA). Since her
embarrassing loss of the Senate Seat during the 2011 general election,
Iyabo has been absent from the political and social scenes.
She withdrew from public arena to spend
more time with her family. But contrary to speculations that she might
be considering reconciliation with her estranged father, Iyabo nurtures
no such plan. “Yes, it has been my last communication with him. I am
very straightforward. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. I am a
very practical person. I think all you have in life is yourself. I don’t
owe anybody to solve anything. If reconciliation happens, then I would
say, okay this is what happened,” she said.
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