Is It the End for Iyabo?

THE defeat of Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello in the Ogun Central senate election was not just rooted in the internal crisis that bedeviled her Peoples Democratic Party, PDP but also influenced by the firm grip of Senator Ibikunle Amosun, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN gubernatorial candidate in the politics of the Ogun Central senatorial district.

Iyabo who voted with her father, former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the polling centre at the African Church Grammar School, Ita Iyalode in Abeokuta, lost in her own polling booth. The results there showed that while she scored 64 votes, the ACN candidate Gbenga Obadara polled 167 votes. The PPN candidate, Mrs. Lola …