Leadership (Abuja)
Stanley Yakubu
19 November 2008
Abuja — Despite words of caution from two of their ranking colleagues that what led to the scuffled last weekend in Ogun state between Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello and some security operatives attached to Ogun state governor, Gbenga Daniels, was a political issue which could only be resolved politically, the Senate yesterday directed two of its committees to investigate and report back to it the cause of the incident.
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello [PDP-Ogun] had raised a point of order, calling the attention of colleagues to the fact that she was manhandled last weekend at a public function in neighbourig Oyo state by some security operatives without committing any offence.
Iyabo recounted how, for no just cause, she was manhandled by the security operatives attached to her state governor, simply because she sat behind him and stood up to dance to gospel music that was being played in the church, where the occasion took place..
"I committed no harm to anybody, the only offence they said I committed was that I sat directly behind their boss the governor and, that I stood up to dance and for that, one of them hit me hard on my hand and almost injured me.
I wondered what would happen to an ordinary Nigerian if I, a Senator, could be treated so shabbing by a security man attached o a elected public officer."
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