Former senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello stated that she joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) because its members were the only ones who maintained in touch with her throughout her more than 15-year absence from active politics.

Obasanjo revealed this while appearing on Channels Television’s Morning Brief on Friday.

The daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo stated that she had not been a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) since 2011, when she failed to win re-election to the Senate.

According to her, she went to a leadership programme at Harvard University, after which she worked on 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. (The Sun)