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LETTER UNDER QUESTION: Iyabo Obasanjo Refuses To Deny Authorship

Sahara Reporters has learned that former Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, the first daughter of President Olusegun Obasanjo, has refused to denounce or deny her authorship of the controversial letter she reportedly wrote to her father.
photo: Iyabo Obasanjo doesn't give any comments on the letter
A source close to Mr. Obasanjo told Sahara Reporters journalist that Ms. Obasanjo had so far defied pressures from friends and family to state that she was not the writer of the letter or that she did not share the views expressed in it.
It was also learnt that Ms. Obasanjo, who currently resides in the State of Massachusetts, has refused to take phone calls from the press. Instead, she has only accepted calls from a select few people whose caller IDs she knows, according to a friend knowledgeable about her movement today.
Moreover, the friend also disclosed that Ms. Obasanjo had virtually stopped taking calls on her cell phone, except from members of a small inner circle.
Part of her plan was to thwart relatives and friends of her father who had been sent on a mission to convince her to dissociate herself from the content of the explosive letter in order to save her father’s image.
Sahara Reporters source revealed that the former senator’s cell phone had been rining incessantly all day yesterday, but was hardly answered.
The correspondent ascertained that Ms. Obasanjo’s voice message box was full, making it impossible for callers to leave her any messages.
Since the letter was published yesterday, several blogs have claimed that the letter under question had been fabricated, an assertion that Sahara Reporters determined to be completely false.

Several sources at Vanguard newspaper told Sahara Reporters that former President Obasanjo’s daughter spoke twice yesterday with editors of the paper and stood by her letter. One source added that the former senator also agreed to let the paper release a tape of her confirmation should the need arise.

Late yesterday, Sahara Reporters contacted the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative where Ms. Obasanjo is a fellow. Commenting on the situation, John Kendzior, a director of the program, confirmed that Ms. Obasanjo was in Boston and enrolled in the program. He asked Sahara Reporters journalist to send an email to be forwarded to her for response.
Still, Ms. Obasanjo did not respond to the email sent via the director. Nor did she respond to several text messages to her mobile phone.
The fallout between Mr. Obasanjo and his daughter is the latest in a long-running feud between the former president and several members of his immediate family. Several years ago, Gbenga, Mr. Obasanjo’s first son, made shocking claims in a divorce filing to the effect that his father slept with his estranged wife.
The former president’s first wife, Oluremi Obasanjo, who is the mother of both Iyabo and Gbenga, also wrote a scathing tell-all memoir titled Bitter-Sweet: My Life With Obasanjo. In the book, Mrs. Obasanjo accused her former husband of physical and emotional assaults as well as philandering.
Former President Obasanjo has come under sharp attacks from aides of President Goodluck Jonathan after he had written an open letter accusing Mr. Jonathan of deception, encouragement of corruption, and the undermining of Nigeria’s democracy.
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