Lagos Assembly crisis: How Meranda survives as Tinubu fails to meet GAC
STRONG indications emerged, that President Bola Tinubu has accepted the plea of some critical stakeholders in Lagos to let the decision of the House of Assembly impeaching former Speaker Mudashiru Obasa, and electing Speaker Mojisola Meranda, stand. President Tinubu did not meet members of the Governor’s Advisory Council, GAC, who were in Abuja to see him on resolution of the issue before jetting out to France on a private visit en-route Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council and the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the AU Heads of State. The AU session is scheduled for February 12 to 16, 2025. Already, the crisis has polarised the GAC and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state with some stakeholders urging against acts that would rubbish the legislature, cast the party in bad light and hurt its chances in coming polls. The GAC, had sent a high powered delegation to Abuja to brief Tinubu, the founder of the council on the outcome ...