The lawmaker representing Agege Constituency I within the Lagos State Home of Meeting, Mudashiru Obasa, says he has resumed because the speaker of the 40-member legislative meeting.
“Obasa is the speaker,” he advised reporters on Thursday afternoon on the premises of the Home.
Requested whether or not he has been reinstated as speaker, Obasa mentioned, “I’ve by no means been eliminated. Impeachment or elimination is democratic and constitutional however in doing that, you should comply with the due course of. I’m not towards that. If I try this, then I’m not democratic.”
In the meantime, a gaggle of lawmakers loyal to the lawmaker, who represents Apapa Constituency I, Mojisola Meranda, rejected Obasa, insisting that Meranda remained the speaker.
On Thursday, 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. Thursday’s look was Obasa’s first within the Meeting since his elimination as Lagos speaker on Monday, January 13, 2025.
In a present of solidarity, his supporters gathered on the entrance gate of the Meeting Advanced, chanting and cheering on the lawmaker who represents Agege Constituency I within the 40-member Home.
Again in January, Obasa was eliminated as Lagos speaker when greater than two-thirds of the home voted him out over alleged misconduct and varied offences.
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.
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Obasa 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.
On Saturday, January 25, 2025, Obasa rejected his elimination and insisted that he remained the speaker till the fitting factor had been accomplished. He faulted the militarisation of the meeting advanced in the course of the impeachment course of. He additionally claimed his elimination as speaker passed off in his absence — when he was out of Nigeria.
Nevertheless, 36 lawmakers loyal to Meranda insisted that Obasa’s elimination was last 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.
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