Obasa expressed this on Saturday during a welcome occasion facilitated in his distinction by allies from Agege, Alimosho, and Kosofe neighborhood government regions in Ikeja GRA.
Mudashiru Obasa, the as of late impugned Speaker of the Lagos State House Of Assembly, guarantees his reprimand was done utilizing a phony mace.
Obasa expressed this on Saturday during a welcome occasion facilitated in his distinction by allies from Agege, Alimosho, and Kosofe Local government Area in Ikeja GRA.
Obasa's prosecution on January 13, 2025, was a consequence of claims of ridiculous unfortunate behavior and maltreatment of office, which prompted his representative, Mojisola Meranda, being chosen and confirmed as his replacement.
Be that as it may, he portrayed his prosecution as unlawful and invalid and void.
Obasa contended that the prosecution cycle didn't stick to established systems.
Addressing his allies following his re-visitation of Lagos on Saturday, Obasa said, "Let me ask you, promptly toward the beginning of the day of that day, police officers attacked the House of Assembly, drove by the chief of police. What was he doing in the Place of Get together? What was his business in the House Ofs Assembly?
“My house in Agege was invaded by more than 200 policemen and this house was blocked, my people from Agege were detained in a black Maria. My children did not sleep in this house on that day because they were locked out and my wife kept inside. House arrest!”
According to him, he was not bothered, only that the impeachment “should have followed due process”.
He said, “Thank God for my people in Agege, they have repeatedly returned me to represent them for six times. So what should I be afraid?
“All we are saying is that if you want to achieve something, do it well, and not because you realise that I’m out of the country and you have more policemen to invade the House of Assembly, to invade my house in GRA, invade my house in Agege; it doesn’t make sense.”
“Lagos is a state that others look up to, we must delegate Lagos, we must not pull it down,” he added.
He conceded that he has been engaged with the expulsion of others from their situations in the get together, yet guaranteed they were finished as per the law.
“Fine, I cannot deny the fact. But let us ask questions, when Pelumi, my brother, who I love so much and fondly call Brother Waheed, was removed, he was in the House and there was no police involvement. It was done on the floor of the House without any breaking into the chamber and without presenting (a) fake mace.
“When Tejuoso, my lovely sister and friend, was removed as deputy speaker, we were all there on the floor of the House. We did not invite any police; it was done peacefully. And the members that were suspended, it was done by the majority of the House on the floor of the House,” he said.
SaharaReporters prior on Saturday revealed that during a gathering with President Bola Tinubu, Lagos Lead representative Babajide Sanwo-Olu and a few other All Progressive Congress stakeholders following Obasa's denunciation, he contended that his reprimand should be invalidated on the grounds that he had stowed away the two maces possessing the state Place of Get together.
Nonetheless, he was educated that the mace involved during the meeting in which he was impugned was brought from the old Get together structure.
One of the sources said, “President Tinubu had summoned all the stakeholders; Lagos lawmakers, Lagos Governor’s Advisory Council, Obasa himself and Lagos Governor to Abuja for consultations and understanding.
“The President was unhappy the removal of Obasa was orchestrated without his express approval, and that he learnt about it from the news and social media. Except this lack of approval, he told Obasa that “he was not born a Speaker, and that speakership was not created with him”.
“Obasa pushed for the nullification of his impeachment on the grounds that the mace used to conduct business of the day on that fateful day wasn’t the official mace of the Lagos House of Assembly, considering he hid away the two maces while travelling out of the country.
“The lawmakers defeated his argument by confirming the mace used as the old mace of the parliament in the old building of the assembly. Seeing the futility of his claims, Obasa requested the President to prevail on the new leadership to grant him access to his belongings at the Speaker’s lodge and guest house. This was granted by the President,” the source added.
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