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NEWLY ELECTED LAGOS ASSEMBLY SPEAKER UNDER PRESSURE TO RESIGN AS DSS STORM OFFICE
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mojisola Meranda, may resign today, according to sources.
This is just as officials of the Directorate of State Service (DSS) allegedly stormed her office sealing it in the process.
Sources said armed security personnel have taken over the premises of the House at Alausa, Ikeja, and environs.
This comes few weeks after the former Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, was impeached but his impeachment has created crisis in the house, with Obasa rejecting it.
As of 10 am, armed security personnel have taken over the premises at Alausa, Ikeja, and environs frisking every passersby.
Meranda, however, arrived with her convoy at about 11.15am.
Recall that the embattled, former Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, has sued the state lawmakers challenging his removal as the Speaker of the Assembly.
Obasa, it was gathered, has filed a motion at the Ikeja Division of the State High Court, where he is also seeking an accelerated hearing of his suit.
Obasa was removed in absentia by 32 out of the 40 members of the state Assembly on January 13, 2025. He was in America when he was removed in a situation described as “coup,” by President Bola Tinubu.
The development has generated controversy with members of the Governance Advisory Council, GAC, an apex political decision making body in All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos, divided over Obasa’s removal.
Obasa, in the suit, was challenging the legality of his removal from office.
