LAGOS, Nigeria – Lagos State lawmakers on Tuesday met with members of the state Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) to brief the council on the development at the Assembly on Monday, including impeachment of Speaker Mudashiru Obasa.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Obasa (APC-Agege 1) and a sixth-term lawmaker was serving his third term as the Speaker.
Thirty-two of the 40 lawmakers in the Assembly voted for his impeachment at a plenary.
NAN reports that the assembly subsequently elected and swore in Obasa’s Deputy, Mrs Mojisola Meranda (APC-Apapa I) as the Speaker and elected Mr Fatai Adebola (APC-Ibeji-Lekki I) Deputy Speaker.
The Assembly also indefinitely suspended its Clerk, Mr Olalekan Onafeko, during the plenary and dissolved all principal positions and standing committees.
The Assembly impeached Obasa over allegations of misconduct, abuse of office and financial misappropriation.
Meranda, thus, became the first female Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly.
On Tuesday, the lawmakers led by their new Speaker met for hours with the GAC behind closed doors.
Meranda told journalists after the meeting that the lawmakers came to brief GAC on Monday’s development.
She said that the meeting was also to enable the lawmakers to receive blessings from the council as well as from the leadership the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State.
“We are here to inform members of the GAC of the latest development, and my colleagues and I have come to receive their blessings as our leaders,” she said.
Members of the GAC did not speak with journalists on Monday’s development.
NAN reports that Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu was absent at the meeting.
