BREAKING: ‘Obasa Ignored President, Disrespected Governor, Party Leaders, Scored An Own Goal’

A political analyst, Jide Ojo, has suggested that snide remarks against Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and disrespect for party leaders contributed to the impeachment of Mudashiru Obasa as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly.

The political analyst who described the entire saga as an own goal inflicted by Obasa on himself, said most allusions suggest Obasa was disrespectful to Governor Sanwo-Olu during the presentation of the 2025 budget figures.

He also claimed the impeached Speaker kept the Governor and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) waiting for several hours during the budget presentation and failed to apologize.

Ojo added that despite the intervention of President Bola Tinubu, Obasa remained stubborn.

He spoke on Monday as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

He said, “On the social media, most allusions were that he (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.”

Naija News recalls Obasa was, on Monday, impeached as Speaker by his colleagues in the Lagos State House of Assembly over allegations of financial mismanagement and abuse of office.

He was subsequently replaced by his deputy, Mojisola Meranda.