Nearly a year after his daughter, Iyabo, wrote a
well-publicised open letter to him, former President Olusegun Obasanjo
has replied her, alleging that she was induced by President Goodluck
Jonathan’s administration to write the stinker. In portions of his
latest memoirs, My Watch, seen in advance by TheCable, Obasanjo said he
had been warned that “this administration” was attempting to induce two
of his daughters to do a “dirty job” and that he warned both of them
against it. Obasanjo said Iyabo succumbed to the advances because of
“her character” and “the influence of her mother” – who is the retired
general’s first wife. In her letter, Iyabo, a former commissioner in
Ogun state and former senator, recounted Obasanjo’s failings as a father
and questioned his moral right to criticise others. “This is the end of
my communication with you for life. I pray Nigeria survives your
continual intervention in its affairs,” she wrote.
