{"id":12174,"date":"2025-01-26T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T08:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=12174"},"modified":"2025-01-26T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T08:38:44","slug":"12174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/12174\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lagos Speaker Ikuforiji Endorses Obasa\u2019s Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has said the removal of Hon. Mudasiru Obasa from office as Speaker was in order and constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>He said the 1999 Constitution does not expect lawmakers to give any reason or cite any allegation for the removal of their presiding officers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Saturday night on Arise Television, the former Speaker said Obasa was just first among equals who can remove him at will.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inline-related-post\" class=\"mag-box mini-posts-box content-only\">\n<div class=\"container-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"mag-box-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-widget-body \">\n<div class=\"post-meta\">\u201cThe assemblymen do not need to give any reason for removing the Speaker. Even if the Speaker puts a powder on his face and the lawmakers feel he is not supposed to put the powder, he can be removed just because of that,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ikuforiji who was Speaker of the House when Obasa was elected as a member in 2003 said Nigerians need to familiarize themselves with the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only the impeachment of Executives like President and Govenors that requires cumbersome processes and two-third majority. For the Legislature presiding officers, it\u2019s just a simple majority and they don\u2019t have to give any reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>32 of the 40-member Lagos assembly had removed Obasa as Speaker on January 13, citing alleged fraudulent activities and his highhandedness.<\/p>\n<p>Obasa was then in Atlanta, United States of America, when he was removed.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to Lagos on Saturday, he told a crowd of supporters that gathered to welcome him in his residence in Ikeja GRA that his removal did not follow due process.<\/p>\n<p>He said he remains the Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has said the removal of Hon. Mudasiru Obasa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12177,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions\/12177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}