APC Chieftain asks Sanwo-Olu to speak up on Lagos Assembly leadership crisis 

A Chieftain of the Lagos All Progressives Congress (APC), Babatunde Bank-Anthony, has called on the governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to speak up regarding the leadership tussle in the state’s House of Assembly.

Bank-Anthony, speaking on Tuesday on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, said since political hierarchies exist in governance, President Bola Tinubu may be cautious about making a statement about the crisis to avoid being seen as taking sides.

He stated that there is need for the Lagos State governor to address the situation.

“I expect the governor as well to say something to this. He is the number one man in Lagos State. He cannot ignore what happened yesterday because that is the parliament that he reports to, that is the parliament that makes the law for the state he is governing,” Bank-Anthony said.

“The governor should speak up about this issue to the right quarters,” he argued.

His comments hours after the escalation of the Lagos State House of Assembly leadership tussle. 

Security officials, operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), had on Monday stormed the Assembly complex.

The lawmakers, however, gained access to the chambers after hours of tussling, with Speaker Mojisola Meranda later presiding over the plenary session at the Alausa area of Lagos.

The APC chieftain said the President Tinubu should walk with caution. 

“26 years of democracy in Lagos, Nigeria right? Do you want to keep sucking your mothers breast at this age? Let us leave this man alone, he has a bigger headache,” the APC chieftain said, double-down on the need for Tinubu to focus more on addressing pressing national issues. 

The crisis in the Lagos Assembly began when the lawmakers removed Mudashiru Obasa as their speaker over fraud allegations.

They elected Meranda in replacement of Obasa immediately.