By DETAILS have emerged on how the immediate past speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, was impeached over some misdemeanors.
For instance, he was said to have kept Governor Babatunde Sanwo-Olu waiting for four hours before the presentation of the 2025 Appropriation Bill of the state last November.
A party leader in the state, Fouad Oki, said besides Governor Sanwo-Olu, senior leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who also came for the budget presentation and who came before the governor, were also kept waiting for five hours by Obasa.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu
Worse still, ousted Speaker Obasa, during that budget presentation while speaking on his speculated governorship ambition, said that those who have become governor were not better than him.
Speaking in a Channels Television interview on Monday, Oki said that Obasa’s carriage during the budget presentation was about the last straw that provoked Monday morning’s impeachment.
According to him, even after keeping Governor Sanwo-Olu waiting for four hours before the budget presentation, Obasa did not deem it fit to apologise for his actions and utterances.
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Oki further confirmed that the former speaker’s seeming imperial attitude was considered before party leaders and before President Bola Tinubu’s Christmas holiday last December but the former speaker was said to have been intransigent and unapologetic.
Obasa’s stance, he said, made party leaders present his case to the president who was said not to have been impressed by the actions of the former speaker, thereby paving way for the impeachment on Monday.
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly had impeached Obasa citing multiple statutory and financial infractions, but the details were not immediately available.
Obasa was subsequently replaced by his deputy, Mojisola Meranda, who has now become the first female speaker of the House.
Mrs Meranda, who represents Apapa Constituency 1, was also a former Chief Whip of the house.
Recall that Obasa was booted out barely a month after he was accused of allegedly spending N17 billion to fix a gate that leads to the state House of Assembly.
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