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Iyabo Obasanjo Bello (Biography, Age, Net worth, Family, and lifestyle)

Iyabo Obasanjo, Daughter of the former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

Iyabo Obasanjo Bello’s Personality

Iyabo Obasanjo was born on the 27th of April 1967 and she is the daughter of the formal Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and his wife Oluremi Obasanjo. Iyabo Obasanjo attended Corona School in Victoria Island, Lagos, Capital School in Kaduna, and Queen’s College in Lagos. She got a degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Ibadan in 1988, a graduate degree in Epidemiology from the University of California, Davis in Davis, California, United States, in 1990, and a Ph.D. in a similar subject from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1994. To know  more about Iyabo Obasanjo,Click here.

Iyabo Obasanjo, Daughter of the former president Olusegun Obasanjo.Iyabo Obasanjo Bello.

Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello Net Worth

Her total net worth has been increasing fundamentally in 2019-2020. Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello’s source of income is mostly from being successful and hardworking. She is from the United States and through Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello’s total assets, money, salary, income, and resources. She is successful. To known more about iyabo Obasanjo’s net worth, click this.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Iyabo Obasanjo.

Iyabo Obasanjo Bello’s Political vocation

Before her senatorial election, Obasanjo was Ogun State Commissioner for Health. She was chosen as a Nigerian Senator representing Ogun Central Senatorial District of Ogun State in April 2007. She contested for re-appointment in April 2011 on the PDP platform, however was defeated by Olugbenga Onaolapo Obadara of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), who acquired 102,389 votes to Obasanjo Bello’s 56,312.For 2012.

Obasanjo was chosen for the Senate on 28 April 2007 on a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) platform; her Action Congress (AC) rival Remilekun Bakare tested this result, however, the Ogun State Election Petition Tribunal maintained her triumph.

She was the Chairman of the Senate’s Health Committee, and an individual from the Security and Intelligence, Land Transport, Science and Technology, Education, National Planning, and Inter-Parliamentary Committees. She lost her seat during the National Assembly Elections on 9 April 2011.

Her political reign, at last, stopped in 2015 when she was ‘squashed’ by Senator Gbenga Obadara who snatched the Ogun Central Senatorial district from her. To know more about Iyabo Obasanjo’s political career, click this. 

 Iyabo Obasanjo’s Son  

Olusegun Obasanjo’s grandson. Every parent wishes to see their grandchildren before they join their progenitors, some parents were favored to become grandparents while some couldn’t make it our solid saint made it, Olusegun Obasanjo is a granddad, the two his children and grandchildren are doing right by him. Jimi Bello is one of the grandsons of Olusegun Obasanjo who is truly fulfilling his mom and grandparents; he is a Hudl ballplayer.

Senator Iyabo Obasanjo Bello is the mother of Jimi Bello, we as a whole realize that senator Iyabo has a hitting resemblance with his father, the equivalent applies her child, Jimi Bello has a hitting resemblance with his mom, even without a DNA test, you can undoubtedly accept that Jimi Bello is the genuine child of his mom.

Jimi Bello resembles a bouncer since his strong appearance has said everything. Yet, he isn’t a bouncer; he is a Hudl ballplayer. 

Iyabo Obasanjo's Son. Jimi Bello.

Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello’s Husband

Iyabo Obasanjo was married to Hakeem Bello between the years 1999 to 2003 and now, they have separated.

Iyabo Obasanjo’s Ex-husband, Oluwafolajimi Hakeem Bello, had remarried his long-term girlfriend, Olajumoke Katherine Thompson, in December 2011, eight years after he separated from the ex-president’s daughter.

Iyabo Obasanjo Ex-Husband, Hakeem Bello Re-Marries

 Hakeem Bello who married former Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello has remarried, however, he claims to have married the love of his life and the only woman he ever loved, Miss Olajumoke Katherine Thompson.

The wedding ceremony took place on Dec first at a Registry in Lagos suburb amidst “exceptionally security” in the presence of family and friends. Hakeem’s marriage with Obasanjo’s daughter crashed after 4 years based on irreconcilable disagreement. 

Hakeem Bello with his new wife.

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