The Lagos Situation Area of Meeting has stated it’s anticipating former Speaker Mudashiru Obasa to renew into the Area ahead of it determines the later order of motion, together with a imaginable probe.
The spokesperson for the Area, Olukayode Ogundipe, disclosed this in an unique interview with The PUNCH on Monday on the Meeting complicated in Alausa, Ikeja.
Ogundipe stated, “At the alternative allegations in opposition to him, when he’s at the garden bodily, the ones ones will probably be sorted.
“There are other things we’ve also been hearing about different amounts of money being spent by him. We felt we didn’t know how they got the record of those, but the ones we have, when he’s seated with us, actions will be taken.”
Requested if the Meeting would post a petition to the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee to probe the ex-Speaker, the Meeting spokesperson, representing Oshodi Constituency I, stated, “That will probably be expatiated when he’s at the garden, almost certainly a committee will probably be all set as much as glance into it or almost certainly it’s going to even be checked out through the management of the Area.
“Those formalities as per procedures will be followed to the letter. So I’m sure you should expect the House to react to that when the time comes.”
The lawmakers had extreme year got rid of Obasa, mentioning, amongst alternative issues, corruption allegations.
However Obasa, who spoke publicly at the subject extreme Saturday, brushed aside the corruption allegation raised through the lawmakers.
He additionally stated his removing was once unprocedural, insisting that he remained the original Speaker.
“If you want to claim that I’m corrupt, please prove it, let us see it,” Obasa informed supporters who welcomed him on the Speaker’s Resort on Saturday.
However talking with our correspondent on Monday, the Area spokesman maintained that Obasa was once lawfully got rid of.
Ogundipe stated, “I need to say that the previous Speaker, Rt Hon Mudashiru Obasa continues to be certainly one of us and can proceed to stay certainly one of us and the method of his removing was once constitutional.
“As I said, the constitution is very clear about the process of bringing him in in case we want to change the guard, that is the same procedure we also used to remove him. The process was duly followed, and the members, we know what we saw, and we intended to change guard and that’s exactly what we did.”
The PUNCH reviews that the Meeting didn’t keep its plenary on Monday as previous scheduled.
Safety group of workers have been sighted round and at the Meeting complicated’s premises as safety was once beefed up.
Safety officers, together with policemen, screened reporters and alternative people making an attempt to go into the Meeting.
Reporters have been coated up at the second one gate to the Meeting complicated with safety officers soliciting for their identification playing cards and barring alternative individuals who may now not establish themselves.
The heightened safety on the Meeting adopted Obasa’s touch upon Saturday the place he claimed to be the Speaker of the Area till the lawmakers adopted “the right process” to take away him from place of work.
The previous Speaker was once got rid of through a majority of the lawmakers on January 13, 2025, following allegations of misconduct and monetary misappropriations.
He was once changed through the previous deputy speaker of the Area, Mojisola Meranda.
In the meantime, in keeping with Ogundipe, the plenary was once rescheduled to permit for the Meeting contributors to actually calm down and to turn that the Area was once non violent.
Meranda formally entered the Administrative center of the Speaker on Monday morning, flanked through lawmakers who threw their weights in the back of her.
Obasa didn’t display up on the Meeting on Monday despite the fact that Ogundipe maintained that “We are also expecting him to be here with us so that they can see it is not about the noise outside, it is a very calm place.”