As part of last-minute efforts to resolve the crisis rocking the Lagos State House of Assembly, President Bola Tinubu has drafted bigwigs in the All Progressives Congress to wade into the matter.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, former governors of Osun, Ogun and Lagos, namely Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Olusegun Osoba and Akinwunmi Ambode, respectively, were at the Governor’s Lodge in Marina, Lagos, for a marathon meeting on Sunday.
All members of the Lagos Governance Advisory Council, the present Lagos chairman of the APC, Cornelius Ojelabi, and the former state chairman of the party, Tunde Balogun, were also at the meeting.
Arising from the meeting, the party chieftains are expected to call all the Lagos lawmakers for another round of meeting.
A source privy to the development told The PUNCH that the meeting was aimed at resolving the speakership tussle between ousted Speaker Mudashiru Obasa and current Speaker Mojisola Meranda.
The source disclosed that while some lawmakers want Obasa to return as Speaker of the House, a faction does not want his return.
“The meeting is currently holding as we speak. The party chieftains will call the lawmakers for another round of meeting. It is all in a bid to resolve the crisis.
“Obasa wants to return as Speaker of the House to spend a little time before he finally resigns by himself. However, some lawmakers believe that once he returns to the seat, it will be hard to get him to leave the position.
“So President Tinubu was fed up with the prolonged crisis and he drafted the party bigwigs to Lagos to find a way out,” the source said.
The development comes following the inability of the GAC members to resolve the crisis which began on January 13 2025 when about 36 lawmakers removed Obasa as Speaker and replaced him with Meranda, who was then a Deputy Speaker.
Obasa, who has since faulted his removal, dragged the Assembly and the new Speaker, Meranda, before a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, claiming that the lawmakers were wrong to have removed him when the Assembly was in recess.
