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Speakership tussle: Let Obasa be, Tinubu tells Lagos lawmakers

•He’s been directed to withdraw case from case —Source

•Speaker warned against future complaints

ABUJA — FOLLOWING the crisis that rocked the Lagos State House of Assembly, President Bola Tinubu met with the Speaker of the Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa and other aggrieved lawmakers behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday.

At the end of the meeting. the President, Vanguard, insisted that Obasa should remain the Speaker with a warning that he should carry his colleagues along.

It was further gathered that the President directed Obasa to withdraw the court case.

After the peace parley, Obasa declined to talk to State House correspondents who had waited to get the outcome of the parley which was held behind closed doors.

Mr Obasa had arrived at about 2:50 pm and was led separately to the President’s office, while his colleagues arrived earlier in two coaster buses that were driven through the forecourt route for the meeting.

Although the agenda was not made public to journalists at the time of filing this report, sources hinted that the meeting was in connection with the recent leadership crisis in the State House of Assembly.

Emerging from Tinubu’s office at about 4:30 pm, members of the delegation were heard chorusing 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.

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