Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has enjoined Nigerians to pray ceaselessly for his eldest son, Gbenga, who recently accused him of sleeping with his wife, Mojisola.

The erstwhile president has also recommended medical examination for Gbenga, who, incidentally, is a physician.

Saturday Independent reliably gathered that Obasanjo told sympathisers, who visited him in his Ota Farms over his present travails, that he had no response to the allegations than to recommend prayers for his son.

In spite of entreaties by the sympathisers made up of old schoolmates, traditional rulers and kinsmen, on how to resolve the issue, sources said Obasanjo declined to make any comment on the vexatious allegations, but urged the people to implore Nigerians to pray for his son.

He was quoted as saying he did not have any regret over the allegations, but expressed concern over the frosty relationship between Gbenga and his siblings.

Myriad of problems surrounding the Obasanjo family seem not to be over yet as his eldest daughter, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, has been declared wanted in the United States of America for child kidnapping and delinquency.

According to agency reports, Iyabo, now a Senator in Nigeria, was declared wanted by a U.S. District Judge, Charles T.L. Anderson for kidnapping and stowing away her son after the court had awarded custody to her estranged husband.

Iyabogate

, the saga of impersonation and contract scam involving her, is still on the front burner of public discourse.

The court document indicated that Iyabo Obasanjo and Akeem Bello solemnised their marriage shortly after her father was sworn-in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999. The document further revealed that the marriage lasted only four years.

Iyabo was a plaintiff in the divorce suit presided over by Alonzo B. Coleman Jnr. of the State of Carolina General Court of Justice, District Court Division. Filed on May 19, 2003, the case had file number 03 CVD 384.

At the hearings, her former husband, Mr. Akeem Bello, had prayed the court to award him custody of their only child, Jimi Bello, born on January 1, 2000 in Chatham County, North Carolina.

The court acceded to his prayers and subsequently granted him custody.

On July 27, 2004, Senator Obasanjo allegedly "kidnapped" Jimi Bello from Akeem Bello’s home in Pittsboro and fled to Nigeria with the child.

Following a series of failed efforts to get her to return the child to the rightful custody of his father, District Court Judge Charles T.L. Anderson ruled on May 9, 2005 that she was in contempt of the court.

The court asked local, state and international law enforcement officers to take Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello into custody.

"If arrested, she should be committed to the Chatham County Jail located in Pittsboro, North Carolina, U.S.A," the judge ruled.

Agency investigation further revealed that beside the civil contempt charges preferred against her by the Chatham County authorities, which has thus kept her under the close watch of the Interpol, Iyabo contravened court order on custody payments (called "child support" in the U.S.).

According to court authorities, she was ordered to pay $875 per month in child support to her former husband, effective October 24, 2004.

According to records, Iyabo is now indebted to her former husband to the tune of $35,013.20 as unpaid child support fee.

Judge Anderson’s had ruled that:

•"Effective May 13, 2005 in event plaintiff does not purge herself under paragraph five below, that the plaintiff is hereby committed to the custody of the Sheriff of the Chatham County to be placed in the Chatham County Jail or other appropriate jail or prison until such time as she purges herself of contempt by complying with the Order of April 20, 2004 and August 23, 2004, signed by Honorable Alonzo B. Coleman.

•"Effective May 13, 2005 in event plaintiff does not purge herself under paragraph five below, it is further ordered that the sheriff of Chatham County, or any other law enforcement officer in North Carolina, the United States of America, or any international law enforcement officer shall take the plaintiff, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello into their custody and the plaintiff shall thereafter be committed to the Chatham County Jail located in Pittsboro, North Carolina, U.S.A. or other available detention facility until such a time as the plaintiff is purged of contempt by this court by delivering Jimi Bello (Date of Birth: January 1, 2000, social security (Bleep-93-XXXX) to the custody of his father, the Defendant as ordered herein."

Meanwhile, there are unending calls by Nigerians on President Umaru Yar’Adua to investigate the eight-year administration of Obasanjo, following allegations of serial acts of impropriety involving contract awards, violation of the rule of law, and misconduct.

Pioneer Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman, Solomon Lar, recently took Obasanjo to the cleaners when he accused him of committing "moral corruption against humanity" by allegedly engaging in sexual liaison with Mojisola, wife of his first son, Gbenga.