The Minister and her deputy were forced to resign after returning their share of the money; they were later arrested and posted bail. Iyabo Obasanjo refused to return her portion of this money, 10 million naira. She claimed that the nine members of her committee "lobbied" for funds from the ministry they oversaw. She maintained this money was spent on a conference on capacity building some members of the health committee attended in Ghana. She has so far refused to appear before the EFCC. Although summoned, along with the minister and other civil servants, she refused to appear in court. A week later a high drama ensued when officials of the EFCC tried to arrest her at her home in the Maitama district of Abuja city, after several simultaneous stake outs by law enforcement officials that had her jumping over her fence to evade arrest by Nigerian law enforcement officers. In 2009 the case was thrown out of the High Court in Abuja as having no merit. Obasanjo described the allegation as "blackmail", and said she was being targeted because she was the daughter of the former president. Post-senate career In 2018, a letter sent by Iyabo Obasanjo to her father in 2013 resurfaced after a statement sent by her father to the present president of Nigeria and she blamed it on the supporters of the present administration. She also said the present administration should heed her fathers advice and not run for Election. Academic career She worked in Clinical Research in the US before returning to Nigeria in 2003. she was a Fellow and for 2013 a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative. She is currently an assistant professor at the College of William & Mary Department of Health Sciences. Her noted works include: Personal life Iyabo Obasanjo married Oluwafolajimi Akeem Bello in September 1999. The couple separated after Obasanjo filed for divorce on 19 May 2003. They both have one child; Jimi Bello born on 1 January 2000 in Chatham County, North Carolina. References 1967 births Living people Queen's College, Lagos alumni Cornell University alumni Nigerian epidemiologists Nigerian women academics College of William & Mary faculty University of California, Davis alumni Yoruba women in politics Iyabo Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate (Nigeria) People from Ogun State Children of national leaders Nigerian expatriates in the United States Politicians from Lagos University of Ibadan alumni 21st-century Nigerian