{"id":357264,"date":"2025-02-27T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=357264"},"modified":"2025-02-27T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:33:41","slug":"lagos-assembly-crisis-lawmakers-insist-meranda-remains-speaker-reject-obasas-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2025\/02\/27\/lagos-assembly-crisis-lawmakers-insist-meranda-remains-speaker-reject-obasas-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos assembly crisis: Lawmakers insist Meranda remains speaker, reject Obasa\u2019s claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>The 36 lawmakers reaffirmed their support for the current speaker, Mojisola Meranda, insisting that she is the speaker of the assembly.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have dismissed Mudashiru Obasa\u2019s assertion that he continues to serve as the speaker of the legislative house.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Obasa, who was recently removed from his role as speaker, arrived at the assembly complex while being escorted by armed security officers.<\/p>\n<p>This incident occurred simultaneously with the recent withdrawal of security personnel assigned to Meranda, further intensifying the ongoing political tension.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking to journalists within the assembly premises, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/16C7rNuBGV\/\"><strong>legislators reaffirmed their commitment<\/strong><\/a> to Meranda\u2019s leadership and expressed their collective stance.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Ogundipe, representing Oshodi-Isolo Constituency 1, who spoke on behalf of the lawmakers, urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership in Lagos to address the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were approached by our leaders that we should remain calm and take things easy. But we are surprised to see what is happening here today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t take laws into our hands, just as we told the staff not to take laws into our hands. But we all belong to different constituencies and we have our mandate. Whatever has to happens, the leadership should speak with us and not this charade we are seeing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not happy; we have been law-abiding. We have not gone out of our way against the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also want to be respected, to be given our dignity. To be shown that we are elected. I\u2019m appealing to the leadership of our party that we cannot continue this way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 36 lawmakers reaffirmed their support for the current speaker, Mojisola Meranda, insisting that she is the speaker of the assembly. 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