President Bola Tinubu met on Wednesday evening with members of the Lagos State House of Assembly led by the embattled Speaker, Hon Mudashiru Obasa at the State House, Abuja.
Obasa however declined comments after the closed door meeting as he departed the State House, via the alleyway.
Obasa had arrived at about 2:50 pm and was led separately to the President’s office, while his colleagues including the Deputy Speaker, Hon Mojisola Meranda arrived earlier in two white coaster buses that were driven through the forecourt route for the scheduled meeting.
Sources hinted that the private meeting was not unconnected with the recent leadership crisis that rocked the Lagos State House of Assembly.
Emerging from President Tinubu’s office at about 4:30pm, some members of the Lagos Assembly were heard singing the lyrics “on your mandate, we shall stand”,
For about five minutes the lawmakers sang “on your mandate, we shall stand,” a popular political lyric commonly used by supporters of President Tinubu to affirm their loyalty to him at public functions
The song rented the air as they filed out towards the two white coaster buses parked and waiting for their departure from the forecourt area of the Presidential Villa.
Obasa who came out of the President’s office after his colleagues had left on the two coaster buses, however, refused to answer reporters’ questions as to how the meeting went as he made his way out of the Presidential Villa.
He was joined by a member of the House of Representatives representing Ikeja federal constituency in Lagos, Hon James Faleke as well as a protocol officer.
Faleke was however quick to tell newsmen that it was a successful meeting saying “the meeting went well” but refused to give more details about the meeting.
Obasa was in January, 2025 impeached as Speaker by some of his colleagues but was later reinstated on March 3, 2025 following the intervention of political stakeholders in the Centre of Excellence including members of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the Governing Advisory Council (GAC) .
Despite the Speaker’s reinstatement, it was gathered that the bad blood as a result of his impeachment is yet to be over which informed the meeting between the President and all the concerned parties in the Lagos Assembly leadership crisis.
