{"id":153200,"date":"2025-02-27T21:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/lagos-speakership-confusion-over-withdrawal-of-merandas-police-escorts-obasas-reported-return"},"modified":"2025-02-27T23:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T22:31:31","slug":"lagos-speakership-confusion-over-withdrawal-of-merandas-police-escorts-obasas-reported-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lagos-speakership-confusion-over-withdrawal-of-merandas-police-escorts-obasas-reported-return","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Speakership: Confusion over withdrawal of Meranda\u2019s police escorts, Obasa\u2019s reported return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Modashiru Obasa on Thursday stormed the Assembly complex.<\/p>\n<p>Obasa arrived the Assembly complex in the company of some security officials and entered the Speaker\u2019s Office around 12 noon, Punch reports.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the development, the Chief Press Secretary to Speaker Mojisola Meranda, Segun Ajiboye said Obasa and his team allegedly broke into the Speaker\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The police escorts attached to Meranda were withdrawn ahead of Obasa\u2019s return to the Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Obasa\u2019s security details were said to have been reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>In January, lawmakers from the state had impeached Obasa for gross misappropriation while he was in the United States, US.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his return, Obasa described his impeachment as unconstitutional, arguing that it did not follow due process.<\/p>\n<p>Meranda, a former Deputy Speaker, was sworn in to replace Obasa and got the blessing of the Lagos State Governance Advisory Council, GAC.<\/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, Modashiru Obasa on Thursday stormed the Assembly complex. Obasa arrived the Assembly complex in the company of some security officials and entered the Speaker\u2019s Office around 12 noon, Punch reports. Confirming the development, the Chief Press Secretary to Speaker Mojisola Meranda, Segun Ajiboye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":153199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1578,1634,254,6482],"class_list":["post-153200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-breaking","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>Lagos Speakership: Confusion over withdrawal of Meranda\u2019s police escorts, Obasa\u2019s reported return - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Modashiru Obasa on Thursday stormed the Assembly complex. 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