Rejection of Sanwo-Olu’s Nominees: Obasa Blows Hot, Says He Can’t Be Threatened
The speaker Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has warned those threatening to protest over the rejection of 17 commissioner nominees of governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to tread softly.
He gave the warning at the floor of the assembly on Monday while reacting to plot by a group of civil society organisations to march to protest against the action of the lawmakers.
Obasa who was visibly fuming said that the lawmakers had done justice to the screening of the nominees and that nobody should threaten the assembly member for doing justice to Lagosians who voted them to office.
He warned them not to start fighting a war they knew little about, adding that no one should draw a battle line between him and the state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, whom he had known many years before the present political dispensation.
Obasa said that he knew Sanwo-Olu while he was a Special Adviser to the former Deputy Governor, Femi Pedro and that nothing would bring a clash between the two of them.
According to him, the rejection of the 17 nominees was purely based on merit because there are many other people that are more qualified in the state that can occupy their positions.
“Whenever the House says no to a overnor’s request, it is interpreted as the House is fighting the governor. If anybody wishes to know the reason for the decision, they should approach the house. We will not be forced to spill our observations, and we reserve the rights to expose the report of the screening.
“We are not going to be threatened by the civil society organisations who wish to protest, it is their right. But then those who live in glasshouse should not throw stones.
“We will continue to work together and there is no reason to fight. But we have constitutional rights to say yes or no to the nominees of the governor,” Obasa said.
