Former President, Olusegun
Obasanjo, has described his daughter, Iyabo as a tough woman who will not
tolerate nonsense from anyone.
Obasanjo was speaking at the Eko
Hotel and Suites, Lagos, while addressing women at the 14th annual lecture of
the Women in Management, Business and Public Service.
Recall that Iyabo had in December
2013 written an open letter to her father, accusing him of maltreating women.
He blamed the insignificant roles
women play in Nigerian politics on men, adding that “It is out of the
selfishness of our men; they will look for anything to keep women under and
look at the sort of things that we do.
“I had two girls before I had a
boy. I had thought that I would never have a boy before I had a boy. But it
doesn’t matter who you are in our own family. My first child, my daughter
(Iyabo) will not take nonsense from you. And you try it; you would be put in
your place.
“It doesn’t 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 PhD than boys.”
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