Obasa Allegely Breaks Into Lagos Assembly Speaker’s Office – The Reactions
By Felix Kuyinu
Impeached Lagos Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, has made entry into the premises of the Parliamentary House self-proclaiming his comeback as Presiding Speaker.
Upon entry to the Assembly complex on Thursday, Obasa made way to the Speaker’s office and thereafter presided over a plenary involving four floor members. In his utterance, the legislator described his outster as from his position “undemocratic” and ‘unconstitutional”.
“Impeachment or removal of speaker is a democratic process and constitutional and If you want to do the that, you must follow the due process,” said Obasa.
“Im not against being removed. If I do that, it means I’m not democratic. What we are saying is that let us follow the due process.
“We’re one family. I don’t have anything against anybody. All my colleagues, we’re brothers, and we remain brothers.
“They’ve always been loyal and dedicated and have a strong commitment to serving the people of Lagos, and we will continue to do that together. For me, I have nothing against anybody and no intention to victimize anybody.”
However, thirty-six members of the Red Chamber reaffirmed their loyalty to existing Speaker, Mojisola Meranda.
The lawmakers held that Meranda is the legitimate leader of the House.
Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Strategy, and Security, Stephen Ogundipe, condemned the ongoing situation and called for calm.
Ogundipe said: “This is Lagos, the State House of Assembly. We’re shocked to see what’s happening here today.
“We expect our leaders, who earlier told us to remain calm, to come and address us and tell us where we went wrong or what really went wrong.
“We won’t take laws into our hands, but we belong to different constituencies and we have our mandates.
“Whatever is going to happen, the leadership should speak with us and not this charade we’re witnessing.
“We are humiliated by this action. I was stopped at the gate from entering the assembly chamber. This is an embarrassment, and it must stop.
“We are not against the leadership’s decisions, but they should call us and tell us instead of hearing rumours. They’re our leaders, we’ll still stand and obey their decisions.
“We reject Obasa in totality.”
