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Impeachment: Ex-Speaker Obasa Drags Lagos Assembly, Meranda To Court

Profile Picture by BishopNuel at 05:31 am on February 15, 2025
The former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has dragged the Assembly and the new Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, before the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, challenging the legality of his impeachment from office.

Obasa, in the suit which was yet to be assigned to a judge, asked the court to declare that his colleagues in the House acted unlawfully by removing him from office as Speaker while the Assembly was on recess.

In the application dated February 12, 2025, and filed by his lawyer, Chief Afolabi Fashanu (SAN), the plaintiff claimed that he was removed from his position on January 13, 2025, by 36 lawmakers while he was out of the country.

The embattled lawmaker was seeking the following reliefs: an order of the court fixing a date for the accelerated hearing of the case and to shorten the time allowed for the defendants to respond with counter-affidavits or written addresses to seven days post-hearing.

He also asked the court to order that the time for the plaintiff to file their replies on points of law be limited to three days.

Obasa’s application was based on nine grounds, focusing on the interpretation of various sections of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), and the Rules and Standing Orders of the Lagos State House of Assembly.

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