BREAKING: How Tinubu’s Intervention Failed to Save Obasa, APC Chieftain Opens Up

A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Fouad Oki has said that President Bola Tinubi’s intervention in the crisis rocking party members and lawmakers in Lagos state failed to save the former Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa from impeachment.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Oki said Obasa’s impeachment by Lagos lawmakers was done in the interest of the president.

According to Oki, it was important for the party and the president to keep Lagos as a pivot for Tinubu’s political leadership.

He also said that the president had visited Lagos during the Yuletide season and his attention was drawn to some of the actions of the former speaker.

He said, “Before the President came home, this issue had been lingering. In the wisdom of members of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), the President’s attention was called.”

Noting that the speaker had began to see himself as an emperor in Lagos state, especially towards the governor, Sanwo-Olu, the APC chieftain said Obasa’s impeachment came as expected.

Oki said, “The President, as father and leader, called a meeting wherein he tried to make a sense out of the observations raised by elders of the party.

“Unfortunately, the President saw the (former) speaker (Obasa) as recalcitrant. I think that is what broke the camel’s back,” he added.