PDP welcomes Iyabo Obasanjo, hands her Ogun senate ticket

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, successful Ogun State, on Wednesday officially received erstwhile Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, pursuing her exit from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Recall that Iyabo, girl of erstwhile Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, represented Ogun Central successful the Senate betwixt 2007 and 2011.

She mislaid her re-election bid successful 2011 and near the state to prosecute a vocation successful academics successful the United States of America.

In January this year, Senator Obasanjo returned to progressive authorities aft 15 years and joined the ruling APC, wherever she declared her ambition to tally for governor.

However, connected the 31st of May, the erstwhile legislator resigned from APC aft losing the governorship ticket, citing disrespect, betrayal, and unfair attraction by the APC leadership.

DAILY POST reports that she was officially received into the PDP fold astatine a monolithic rally held astatine the enactment secretariat successful Abeokuta on Wednesday.

The State Chairman of the PDP, Dr Abayomi Tella, presented the PDP emblem to Senator Obasanjo, welcoming her backmost to the enactment and announcing her arsenic the PDP campaigner for Ogun Central successful the adjacent election.

“On behalf of our National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulrahman Mohammed, and the full National Working Committee of the PDP, I, Abayomi Tella, PhD, the State Chairman of the...