Speakership tussle: Let Obasa be, Tinubu tells Lagos lawmakers

Speakership tussle: Let Obasa be, Tinubu tells Lagos lawmakers

 Following the crisis that rocked the Lagos State House of
Assembly, President Bola Tinubu met with the Speaker of the Assembly, Mr
Mudashiru Obasa and other aggrieved lawmakers behind closed doors at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday.

 

At the end of the meeting. the President, Vanguard, insisted
that Obasa should remain the Speaker with a warning that he should carry his
colleagues along.

 

It was further gathered that the President directed Obasa to
withdraw the court case.

 

After the peace parley, Obasa declined to talk to State
House correspondents who had waited to get the outcome of the parley which was
held behind closed doors.

 

Mr Obasa had arrived at about 2:50 pm and was led separately
to the President’s office, while his colleagues arrived earlier in two coaster
buses that were driven through the forecourt route for the meeting.

 

Although the agenda was not made public to journalists at
the time of filing this report, sources hinted that the meeting was in
connection with the recent leadership crisis in the State House of Assembly.

 

Emerging from Tinubu’s office at about 4:30 pm, members of
the delegation were heard chorusing the lyrics ‘On your mandate, we shall
stand.’’

 

For about five minutes, the lawmakers sang ‘On your mandate,
we shall stand,’ a popular political lyric commonly used by supporters of
President Tinubu to affirm their loyalty to him.

 

The song rented the air as they filed out towards the two
coaster busses parked and waiting for their departure from the forecourt area
of the Presidential Villa.

 

Meanwhile, Obasa, who emerged from the meeting alongside a
member of the House of Representatives, Mr James Faleke, resisted proddings to
speak to newsmen as he made his way out of the Presidential Villa.

 

When asked how the meeting went, Mr Faleke, who represents
Ikeja Federal Constituency simply said, “It went well.”

An unconfirmed report had it that some members of the House
apologized to Obasa over his impeachment.

 

Obasa remains Speaker, to withdraw court case — Source

However, a member of the Assembly, who spoke in confidence, disclosed that the meeting was more of a peace parley adding that it was
agreed that Obasa would remain as Speaker.

 

The lawmaker said: “Obasa is staying and we have no choice
but to obey the President. The meeting was more of a family meeting.”

 

When asked whether the president reprimanded the anti-Obasa
lawmakers for earlier impeaching Obasa, the source said: “No, it was more of a
family matter. Mr President condemned his (Obasa’s) actions not to parley with
us. He, however, said that since we did not carry him (Tinubu) along, and it
was only Obasa that came to report the matter to him, he had no choice but to
support him (Obasa).

 

“He also warned him (Obasa) that if there were any future
complaints from any quarters, he would be gone. The President said he should
let peace reign; and so based on that, we have accepted.”

 

On the pending matter in court, the source said: “The
President has instructed him to withdraw it.”

 

Recall that Mr Obasa was impeached by some of his colleagues
but was later reinstated on March 3, 2025, following the intervention of the
political stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress and the Governing
Advisory Council, GAC.

 

Despite the Speaker’s reinstatement, it was gathered that
the bad blood as a result of his impeachment is yet to be over.

Source: Speakership tussle: Let Obasa be, Tinubu tells Lagos lawmakers

 - NigerianEye
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