Fresh facts have emerged on why the Lagos State Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa was impeached by the lawmakers and replaced by his deputy, Mojisola Meranda as the new speaker of the house.

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Fouad Oki has this to say about the impeachment Obasa.

Oki said: “Obasa saw himself as an emperor. It became very obvious that there was a need for a change in the leadership of the parliament in Lagos.”

“If you cast your mind back, you must have seen this coming in the last 18 months.”

“Recall the events on the day when the governor presented the 2025 appropriation bill and the leadership of the party was invited to the convention.”

Also, political analyst, Jide Ojo said:

“On social media, most allusions were that Obasa was disrespectful to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the way he carried out during the budget presentation exercise, particularly when he made that snide remark that I am not too young or inexperienced to be the governor of the state and I am more qualified than some of those people who are there.”

“So, it’s presumed to be a snide remark at a sitting governor.”

“Incidentally, as a speaker or deputy speaker of the House of Assembly you do not have immunity, you are just there at the grace of your members.”

“I don’t know what might have prompted Obasa to behave the way he did because if what he is alleged to have done has been revealed, which is politics behind the scene of keeping the governor waiting for several hours, keeping the party elders waiting and no apologies and then the President weighing in and you are showing some stubbornness and recalcitrant, well those the gods want to destroy they first make whatever.”

“So, I believe this may have been a self-inflicted own goal if I want to call it own goal.”