{"id":153179,"date":"2025-02-27T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares"},"modified":"2025-02-27T23:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T22:29:09","slug":"ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve resumed as Lagos Assembly Speaker \u2013 Obasa declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa on Thursday declared that he has resumed his position as the parliament leader.<\/p>\n<p>Obasa disclosed this after returning to the Assembly with armed security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve resumed, and I remain the Speaker of the Assembly,\u201d Obasa said.<\/p>\n<p>On January 13, 2025, lawmakers of the Lagos State House of Assembly had impeached Obasa for alleged misappropriation.<\/p>\n<p>Obasa was away in the United States when he was removed as Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>While away, his deputy, Mojisola Meranda was appointed Speaker and sworn in.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his return, Obasa contested his removal, saying his impeachment did not follow due process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa on Thursday declared that he has resumed his position as the parliament leader. Obasa disclosed this after returning to the Assembly with armed security operatives. \u201cI\u2019ve resumed, and I remain the Speaker of the Assembly,\u201d Obasa said. On January 13, 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":153178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1634,254,6482],"class_list":["post-153179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-lagos-assembly","tag-nigeria","tag-obasa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I\u2019ve resumed as Lagos Assembly Speaker \u2013 Obasa declares - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa on Thursday declared that he has resumed his pos ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I\u2019ve resumed as Lagos Assembly Speaker \u2013 Obasa declares\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa on Thursday declared that he has resumed his pos ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-27T14:37:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-27T22:29:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740658802.950845.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"427\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"I\u2019ve resumed as Lagos Assembly Speaker \u2013 Obasa declares\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-27T14:37:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-27T22:29:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares\"},\"wordCount\":126,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740658802.950845.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"lagos assembly\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obasa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ive-resumed-as-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa-declares\",\"name\":\"I\u2019ve resumed as Lagos Assembly Speaker \u2013 Obasa declares - 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