How Tinubu Made Me Lagos Assembly Speaker — Obasa

The speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has revealed how the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, supported his ambition to become the speaker of the Assembly.
Obasa made the disclosure on Friday during the inauguration of the 1.4km Agege-Pen Cinema Bridge.

The speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has revealed how the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader and former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, supported his ambition to become the speaker of the Assembly in 2015.

Obasa, who represents Agege 01 constituency in the Lagos Assembly, made the disclosure on Friday during the inauguration of the 1.4km Agege-Pen Cinema Bridge.

He said, “Our father, we can’t thank him enough, what we are doing here in Agege today, he laid the foundation in 1992 and we have continued to build and sustain that foundation. And we have resolved, we will never let you down. We will continue to stand for that name BAT – Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

“If you look around in Agege, politically you talk about Obasa, you talk about (Babatunde) Adejare, you talk about (Taofeek) Adaranijo, Asiwaju is our source, all of us, they are all here and I am bearing testimony.

“Before I joined the House of Assembly, I started as a councillor here in this local government. Our first primary election took place in Airport Hotel. If not for his (Tinubu) intervention. We had about five delegates or six and about contestants. I had three (votes), the other person had two (votes) and another person had one and the person with one vote left to join the man that had two, making 3-3.

“If they had suspended that election, that would have been the end of it but because of his (Tinubu) intervention, it was resolved, there and there and that was the first time of Mudashiru Obasa in the Lagos State House of Assembly and without that there wouldn’t have been a speaker from Agege. Asiwaju, we thank you. God will bless you. God will continue to sustain you,” the speaker disclosed.

Obasa took over from former speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji in 2015.