Mudashiru Obasa, has on Monday, March 3, 2025 been re-elected as the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly as reported by an online media publication.
This follows the resignation on Monday March 3, 2025, of Mojisola Moyosore as speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly.
This may have come to many as a shock..
But right after her resignation, embattled Speaker who represents Agege Constituency I, Mudashiru Obasa, was re-elected.
This re-election came after the nomination of a former Majority Leader of the House, Noheem Adams, representing Eti-Osa Constituency 1.
Obasa subsequently took the oath of office as the new Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly seven weeks after his removal.
He was first elected into the House in 2007. He has been in the chamber since then.
He emerged as a speaker in June 2015 before his removal in January 2025.
The leadership crisis in the Assembly became took a nose dive on January 13, 2025, when lawmaker, Mudashiru Obasa was removed as Lagos speaker by more than two-thirds of the 40-member house who voted him out over alleged misconduct and sundry offenses.
Obasa’s then deputy, Meranda, was immediately elected the new Speaker, becoming the first female to take charge of the legislative body in the South-West state.
On January 25, 2025, Obasa vehemently rejected his removal and insisted that he remained the speaker until the right thing had been done.
He faulted the aggressive fortification of the assembly complex during the impeachment process.
He also claimed his removal as speaker did not follow due process.
He was removed when he was out of Nigeria.
You can read more on the leadership saga in the Lagos HOA from our previous publication