In a last-gasp effort to broker peace among the troubled Lagos state House of Assembly, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wednesday, met with reinstated speaker, Hon Mudashiru Obasa, and Hon Mojisola Meranda, who recently resigned as speaker.
Blueprint learnt that the meeting, which held in the office of the President at the State House, Abuja, was said to be all about the leadership crisis which rocked the assembly in recent times.
Recall that majority of the members of the Lagos state House of Assembly voted to impeach Hon Obasa as speaker on January 13, 2025, over alleged misconduct and abuse of office.
Meranda, who was then his deputy, was subsequently elected as his replacement by members, a development which Obasa, who was out of the country during the period, rejected, filing a legal action against his impeachment.
The ensuing crisis at the assembly had attracted the intervention of major stakeholders in the state’s politics, including the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC).
For the Wednesday meeting, the legislators arrived the forecourt of the State House around some minutes past 2pm.
While Meranda arrived along with the other members of the assembly, Obasa arrived separately around 2:50pm.
Emerging from the President’s office at about 4:30pm, members of the delegation were heard chorusing the lyrics “on your mandate, we shall stand.”
For about five minutes the lawmakers sang “on your mandate, we shall stand,” a popular political lyric commonly used by supporters of President Tinubu to affirm their loyalty to him.
The song rented the air as they filed out towards the two coaster busses parked and waiting for their departure from the forecourt area.
Obasa resisted to speak to newsmen as he made his way out of the State House.
However, a member of the House of Representatives, Hon James Faleke, who was walking with him, when asked about the outcome of the meeting, responded “it went well”.
Obasa was reinstated as speaker on March 3, 2025, following the intervention of the political stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the GAC.
Despite the speaker’s reinstatement, the bad blood as a result of his impeachment has lingered, reinforcing the inevitability of President Tinubu’s Wednesday intervention.