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Lagos Assembly: ‘Tinubu not in support of Obasa’s return as Speaker
The report that President Bola Tinubu is backing the return of Mudashiru Obasa as Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly “is a fallacy, a total spin in the media to test the waters.
“Since January 13 that he was impeached, Obasa is gone and I can categorically tell you that he is gone for good or bad. He is not coming back as the Number Three Citizen of the Centre of Excellence.
“In fact, you know the Nigerian practice is that if and when a Speaker is suspended like that, he or she will be placed on suspension to allow the successor to effectively take charge.
“But those close to the President are putting pressure on us not to suspend him. However, with the way Obasa is going, we may suspend him and heavens will not fall”.
With the above, a member of the 40-member Lagos State House of Assembly, on Sunday, described as false the report that President Tinubu and the First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, are backing the return of Obasa as Speaker.
The report declared that the president and his wife are putting pressure on the lawmakers to allow Obasa’s return as Speaker.
It was said that Obasa should be given a soft landing, be allowed to return and after a few weeks, he will resign voluntarily.
Speaking with Freedom Online, the lawmaker, who said his name should not be mentioned because he is not the spokesman for the House, described those behind the story as “politically daft”.
“What I will say is simple. People behind the story are politically daft. That is the truth. How could anybody write and publish a story like that? Does it make any sense at all? That Obasa should come back as Speaker and later resign. This is the first time I will read this type of a stupid story.
“That story is even an embarrassment. They don’t know they are embarrassing the office of the Commander-in-Chief by mentioning President Tinubu’s name.
“Haba! Are they daft? Is that the way power is given? Is Obasa the first speaker to be impeached in the country? What the President, GAC members and some elders are telling us is that we should not suspend him.
“But, with the way Obasa and a few people close to him are spinning stories in the media, we may have to suspend him soon. There is no way any reasonable person will allow a snake to stay in the same room with him or her.
“We have a meeting on this matter in a few days. Mojisola Meranda is our Speaker. Final. For even embarrassing the president, we will tell Obasa we have the powers to deal with him”.
President Bola Tinubu has nominated Melvin Ayogu to the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria and has sought Senate confirmation for the appointment.
The Special Adviser to Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, made this in a statement on Wednesday.
Tinubu also sought Senate confirmation for Nwakuche Ndidi as controller-general of the Nigerian Correctional Service.
He said the requests, conveyed in letters to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, were read during Tuesday’s plenary.
Tinubu had previously nominated Robert Agbide, Ado Wanga, Murtala Sagaley, Urom Eke, and Olayinka Aliyu to the CBN board in February 2024.
However, on February 29, 2024, the senate confirmed four people as members of the board of the CBN after Eke rejected the offer, citing “conflict of interest”.
Tinubu replaced Eke with Ruby Onwudiwe on March 13, 2024; however, a day after, reports circulated that the president withdrew her nomination over political affiliation with the Labour Party, an opposition of the All Progressives Congress.
The decision reportedly followed pressure mounted on the president by members of the APC, as Onwudiwe publicly supported Peter Obi, who contested on the LP platform against Tinubu, at the 2023 presidential elections.
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have arrived the State House, Abuja, to meet with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The legislators who arrived in two coaster buses had been allowed into the President’s office area to wait for the meeting.
Both the reinstated Speaker of the Assembly, Hon Mudashiru Obasa, and the ousted one, Hon Mojisola Miranda, were also sighted in the team.
While Meranda arrived with her colleagues at some minutes past 2pm, Obasa arrived separately at about 2:50pm.
The meeting may not be unconnected with the recent leadership crisis in the State House of Assembly.
It would be recalled that Hon. Obasa was impeached as Speaker by a majority of his colleagues, but he was latter reinstated after the intervention of the political leaders especially the Governor’s 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.
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has discribed as “useless” the letter sent by Governor Siminalayi Fubara to the Rivers State House of Assembly, requesting a meeting regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling on the state’s political matters.
During a conversation with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, Wike, the former governor of Rivers State, voiced his disapproval, emphasizing that Speaker Martins Amaewhule and other members of the Rivers Assembly are independent individuals who deserve respect.
Wike argued that instead of issuing a public letter to invite the lawmakers, Fubara should have contacted Amaewhule and his team directly by phone to schedule a private meeting at a convenient time.
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