Ogun State PDP chairman, Abayomi Tella, receiving Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, who just decamped from the APC back to the opposition party in Abeokuta.
Daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, who resigned her membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress last week, was on Wednesday formally received back into the Peoples Democratic Party.
At a well-attended, carnival-like event held at the party secretariat in Abeokuta, the state chairman of the party, Dr Abayomi Tella, supported by other party leaders, presented Obasanjo with the party flag, formally announcing her as its senatorial candidate for Ogun Central ahead of the 2027 elections.
The reception was preceded by a procession through major streets in Abeokuta by Obasanjo, flanked by the party’s governorship candidate, Ladi Adebutu, her supporters, and PDP members from Ogun Central and other parts of the state.
Speaking at the event, Dr Tella said: “On behalf of our National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulrahman Mohammed, and the entire National Working Committee of the PDP, I, Dr Abayomi Tella, the state chairman of the PDP, and on behalf of PDP Ogun Central, present to our revered sister, Prof Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, this flag as the authority of the party for her candidature for the Senate in Ogun Central.”
