Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party (LP) has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to call Madashiru Obasa, the removed former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly to order amid the crisis that rocked the state on Monday, February 17.

During an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today program on Monday, Rhodes-Vivour described the raid of the legislative chamber as a show of shame exhibited by members of the ruling APC.

Rhodes-Vivour said, “His (Obasa’s) leaders in the GAC, the president, should call him to order. Lagos State has advanced way past. We don’t want to go to new lows. There are civilized ways to handle these things. His party should call him to order.”

He described the drama at the assembly complex as an assault on the legislature, saying that anybody trying to capture the leadership of the House for whatever political interest should be ashamed.

“Armed men coming into the assembly is a big low and a disgrace to our politics in Lagos. It’s completely disgraceful,” he said.

It’s unfortunate that all the allegations that were brought before the former speaker, all sorts of corruption allegations, we have not seen anything come out of it,” he said, even as he called on anti-graft agency EFCC to probe the allegations against Obasa.

The former governorship candidate also slapped the APC for normalising the use of force and intimidation to get their way around several issues.

“An attempt to intimidate the speaker to resign and step aside using armed men and the threat of violence, and that is unacceptable,” he said.

Recall that armed security officers drawn from the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services stormed the hallowed chamber, preventing the Speaker, Mojisola Meranda, from gaining entrance till hours later. When she finally presided over plenary, she became tearful and emotional as lawmakers passed a vote of confidence in her.



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