By Cross Udo, Abuja
President Bola Tinubu met yesterday with the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, and other members at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
At the end of the meeting, Obasa declined to talk to State House correspondents who had waited to hear the outcome of the parley, which was held behind closed doors.
Obasa arrived at about 2:50 p.m. and was led separately to the President’s office, while his colleagues arrived earlier in two coaster buses that were driven through the four-court route for the meeting.
Although the agenda was not made public to journalists as of the time this report was filed, sources disclosed that the meeting was in connection with the recent leadership crisis in the state House of Assembly.
Emerging from Tinubu’s office at about 4:30 p.m., 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 buses parked and waiting for their departure from the four-court area of the Presidential Villa.
Meanwhile, Obasa, who came out from the meeting alongside a member of the House of Representatives, James Faleke, resisted prodding to speak to journalists as he made his way out of the Presidential Villa.
When asked how the meeting went, Faleke, who represents the Ikeja Federal Constituency of Lagos State, simply said, “It went well.”
An unconfirmed report had it that some members of the House apologized to Obasa over his impeachment.
Recall that some of his colleagues impeached Speaker Obasa, but he was later reinstated on March 3, 2025, following the intervention of the political stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Governing Advisory Council (GAC).
Despite the Speaker’s reinstatement, it was gathered that the bad blood caused by his impeachment is yet to be over.
