Lagos Assembly: Analyst, Ojo reveals why Obasa was impeached

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Jide Ojo, a political analyst, has called the removal of Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker Mudahiru Obasa a self-inflicted own goal.

On Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Ojo made this statement and said that the former Speaker’s insulting comments about Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu might have been considered one of his offences.

Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly impeached Obasa on Monday, according to a ZINGTIE report, after he was charged with many financial and legal violations.

The previous Speaker was then succeeded by his deputy, Mojisola Meranda, a former chief whip of the house and the member for Apapa Constituency 1.

The Lagos State House of Assembly’s new deputy speaker, Mojeed Fatai, was also chosen by the House.

As stated by him, “on social media, most allusions were that he [Obasa] was disrespectful to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the way he carried out during the budget presentation exercise, particularly when he made that snide remark that I am not too young or inexperienced to be the governor of the state and I am more qualified than some of those people who are there.

“So, it’s presumed to be a snide remark at a sitting governor.

“Incidentally, as a speaker or deputy speaker of the House of Assembly you do not have immunity, you are just there at the grace of your members.

“I don’t know what might have prompted Obasa to behave the way he did because if what he is alleged to have done has been revealed, which is politics behind the scene of keeping the governor waiting for several hours, keeping the party elders waiting and no apologies and then the President weighing in and you are showing some stubbornness and recalcitrant, well those the gods want to destroy they first make whatever.

“So, I believe this may have been a self-inflicted own goal if I want to call it own goal.”

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