- Safiu Kehinde
Sen. Iyabo Obasanjo, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate for Ogun Central Senatorial District in the forthcoming 2027 General Elections, has cried out over alleged threat to her life.
Obasanjo said she will put the United Nations, the United States Embassy in Nigeria and the international community on notice over what she described as a looming threat to her life and the integrity of the January 2027 elections.
The former senator made this known in an interview with Splash FM on Monday while reacting to the violent disruption of a PDP campaign gathering at Ward 16, Trailer Park, Soyooye area of Abeokuta North Local Government Area.
Speaking during the interview, she claimed to have seen videos circulating online showing men, some of them with masked faces and armed with cutlasses, allegedly dismantling campaign canopies and attacking people at the venue shortly before her arrival.
Obasanjo reportedly warned that unless what she described as the growing violence was stopped, she and her political associates would seek the attention of the international community.
“This is not the first time they are making attempts at my life,” she alleged, recalling an incident during the 2003 election in which she said gunmen fired at a vehicle in her convoy, believing she was travelling in it.
She claimed that the attack resulted in the death of all the occupants of the vehicle.
“I say it aloud now. If anything happens to me, the whole world should know those who are behind it,” she declared.
