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Iyabo Obasanjo (born 27 April 1967) is a former Nigerian senator and the daughter of former president of Nigeria,
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βI wonβt be your legacy, let your legacy be Nigeria in the fractured state you created because β¦ I pray Nigeria survives your continual intervention in its affairsβ
βHe (Tunji-Ishola) just ended being such a wonderful gift to the nation. I hope he will continue to have success. I hope he continues to have active participation in politics and I hope he continues to have positions where he can contribute to the growth of the state and the country.β
βIt is tiring to continue to be part of Nigerian conversation when thereβs no positive impact to it.I really do not want to be part of it, as Iβve found over and over again that speech and words are wasted on people who have no understanding of responsibility on us as black people on this planet.β
βI am surprised that agents of the current administration who should benefit from the advice and admonishment of one of the most brilliant leaders to ever emerged in modern Africa have resorted to a cheap tactic that further reiterates the message that they found abhorrent enough to start looking for unconnected issues to put together to make their point.β
βTo say that Nigeria has problems is to make an understatement. The wise should listen, wherever help and advice come from. Those who republished the old letter should have spent time to respond to the content of the said statement which, among other things, called on President Buhari to join the rank of retired elder statesmen in 2019. I would think this was appropriate and even unnecessary advice, given the serious medical problems he has had over the last few years.β
βI wanted to say to you: when you copy something you also copy the modifications based on the learning from the original; only a fool starts from scratch and does not base his decisions on the learning of others. In science, we use the modifications found by others long ago to the most recent, as the basis of new findings; not going back to discover and learn what others have learnt. Human knowledge and development and civilization will not have progressed if each new generation and society did not build on the knowledge of others before themβ
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Victoria Ohaeri Condemned Iyabo Obasanjo'letter to her dad on Iyabo Obasanjo
βTo tell you the truth, throwing mud at your fatherβs white garment in the village square is the least effective way of redressing such complex family squabbles. What you have done is sacrilegious. It shows bad upbringing and want of character. It puts a big question mark on the academic background and intellectual quality of the author. By all known cultural, social and global standards, your open letter and its contents are very inappropriate.β
Obasanjo bragged about her daughter on Iyabo Obasanjo
βMy first child, my daughter (Iyabo) will not take nonsense from you. And you try it; you would be put in your place. It doesnβt matter; you may be 10 times her height, she will bring you down. (It is) because I give them the encouragement and you heard, eight of my children have PhDs. I have slightly more boys than girls but I have more girls with Ph.D. than boys.β
About Iyabo Obasanjo
Iyabo Obasanjo (born 27 April 1967) is a former Nigerian senator and the daughter of former president of Nigeria,