APC chieftain calls Obasa to take up seat as ordinary member or resign

By Jude Opara

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), in Lagos State, Fouad Oki, has urged the impeached speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly Mudashiru Obasa to go back to the house and continue his basic responsibility to his constituency.

Peoples Daily reports last Monday that Obasa was impeached but the lawmaker claims he is still the speaker of the Lagos Assembly.

Obasa claimed he was impeached using a fake mace.

Mojisola Meranda, who emerged Speaker of the Assembly following the impeachment of Obasa, formally occupied the office of the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday.

Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Fouad advised the Agege lawmaker to forget about returning to the speakership position.

He said either the lawmaker resigns or focus on his duties in the House just like other lawmakers.

“Matters of the Lagos Assembly are past events… what has played out in Lagos is very clear: there is party organisation and there’s party with convention. You know conventions are unwritten rules or unwritten laws,” he said.

“Now we have different layers of control, of check and ballances in Lagos politics. What has played out is a clear testament of what politics should be…let us learn a few lessons from what has happened.

“For those that are yet to know that in politics there is hierarchy, control, checks and balances the events of last week has shown that…There’s no shame in it.

“Nothing he could do other than go back to the house and continue his job as a legislator. Another side to that is that he should throw in the hat and say ‘I’ve had enough, let someone else take over from me.

“Other than that he should just continue his basic responsibility of continuing to participate in making good laws for the good people of Lagos. He’ll take it like every other human being. It comes and goes. It is gone.”