Culled from SUNSHINE BOOKSELLER
The first wide of the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo pours out her heart in this book.She has broken it in spectacular style with a tell-all autobiography, Bitter-Sweet: My Life with Obasanjo. The author paints a portrait of her husband as a vindictive “master of decoy”, a “violent and unrepentant wife-basher”, and a man whose “womanising knows no bounds”. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the 72-year-old Mr Obasanjo who has been busily building a new profile for himself as a pan-African statesman second only to Kofi Annan.
What ensues is an almost slapstick riot of affairs and breathless high politics punctuated with domestic violence and desperation. And it’s one in which Mama Iyabo is happy to name names. In the early 1970s her particular nemesis was an older married woman called Mowo Sofowora. One evening, she recalls: “I was eavesdropping on the phone downstairs while Obasanjo was in the bedroom. They had spoken for about 30 minutes when she then said she was having a headache. I had heard enough, so I butted in: ‘It’s that headache that will kill you, shameless married woman dating a younger man’. On hearing my voice, Obasanjo charged downstairs to beat me and we had one of the many fights that had come to define our marriage.”
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