Obasa Kept Sanwo-Olu Waiting 4 Hours – APC Chief Explains Sack Of Lagos Speaker

The immediate past speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa 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 has said.

Besides Governor Sanwo-Olu, senior leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC who also came for the budget presentation who came before the governor were kept waiting for five hours by Obasa.

Adding salt to injury, 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.

He said even after keeping Governor Sanwo-Olu waiting for four hours before the budget presentation that Obasa did not deem it fit to apologise for his action.

Oki further confirmed that the former speaker’s seeming imperial attitude was considered before party leaders 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 to present his case to the president who was said not to have been impressed by the actions of the former speaker paving way for the impeachment on Monday.

GWG.ng reports that Obasa could not have been removed without the tacit approval of the president.

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.

The removal came barely a month after Obasa was accused of allegedly spending N17 billion to fix a gate that leads to the assembly.

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