Amid the management tussle that has assailed the Lagos State Home of Meeting within the final seven weeks, a lawmaker, who represents Agege Constituency I, Mudashiru Obasa, has been re-elected because the Speaker of the 40-member Meeting.
Obasa was re-elected on Monday after the resignation of Mojisola Meranda who stepped down because the Speaker of the Home.
His re-election adopted the nomination by a former Majority Chief of the Home, Noheem Adams, who represents Eti-Osa Constituency 1.
Obasa subsequently took the oath of workplace as the brand new Speaker of the Lagos State Home of Meeting seven weeks after his elimination.
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He was first elected into the Home in 2007. He has been within the chamber since then. He emerged as a speaker in June 2015 earlier than his elimination in January 2025.
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The management disaster within the Meeting grew to become full-blown on January 13, 2025, when Obasa was eliminated as Lagos speaker by greater than two-thirds of the 40-member home, who voted him out over alleged misconduct and varied offenses.
Obasa’s then-deputy, Meranda, was instantly elected the brand new Speaker, turning into the primary feminine to take cost of the legislative physique within the South-West state.
On January 25, 2025, Obasa vehemently rejected his elimination and insisted that he remained the speaker till the precise factor had been carried out. He faulted the militarisation of the meeting complicated throughout the impeachment course of. He additionally claimed his elimination as speaker occurred in his absence — when he was out of Nigeria.
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Nevertheless, 36 lawmakers loyal to Meranda insisted that Obasa’s elimination was ultimate and that Meranda remained the speaker of the Home.
On February 17, 2025, tempers flared on the Meeting Advanced when safety brokers and a few legislative employees clashed over the presence of the previous within the hallowed chambers. Thereafter, thirty-six of the lawmakers handed a vote of confidence in an emotional Meranda and adjourned sitting indefinitely.
On February 27, 2025, Obasa confirmed up on the Meeting Advanced and was chaperoned by a retinue of armed, stern-looking uniformed safety operatives as he walked into the hallowed chambers. Final Thursday’s look was Obasa’s first within the Meeting since his elimination as Lagos speaker on Monday, January 13, 2025.
Obasa insisted that he remained the speaker of the Home regardless of protests by his colleagues who rejected his management and pledged loyalty to Meranda.
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