Lagos Speaker, Obasa, Troubled

<h4>Lagos Speaker&comma; Obasa&comma; Troubled<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that the Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker&comma; Right Honourable Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa&comma; is troubled&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The ebullient and well read Speaker is not worried as a result of incompetence and capacity to function in the 10th State Assembly as the Speaker but he is worried because of emerging political configurations&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At the moment&comma; what had earlier seemed a clear highway for his retention of the number legislative seat has become opaque&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Nothing is certain any more&period; Nothing is sure&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This is because Honourable Mustain Abiodun Tobun&comma; representing Epe State Constituency I and Chairman of the House Committee on Works in the outgoing 9th Assembly&comma; has publicly declared his intention to run for the Speakership seat of the State Assembly&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Therefore&comma; as it is in the National Assembly hot contest for Principal offices&comma; Obasa has to fight the battle of his life to retain the Speakership seat&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;More disturbing is the emerging fact that Bola Ahmed Tinubu is said to have approved the change of leadership in the House&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to information&comma; Obasa is on record to have spent time&comma; energy and money to support Tinubu’s presidential desire&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So&comma; it is not because of lack of loyalty&period; But Tinubu&comma; for reason best known to him&comma; has okayed change of leadership in the House&comma;” <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">a source confided in OpenLife Wednesday night&period;<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;Further&comma; the source disclosed that apart from Tinubu’s shadow in the change of leadership&comma; Tobun’s aspiration to be speaker is supported by precedence&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nothing is awkward in Tobun’s aspiration&period; The aspiration is supported by precedence&period; There was a time in Lagos here when the Speaker and deputy governor came from same Lagos West senatorial district&period; That was precisely in 2015 when Obasa became speaker&period; As of that time&comma; Oluranti Adebule from Lagos West was deputy governor&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;So&comma; if the next Speaker comes from Lagos East with deputy governor Kadri Obafemi Hamzat&comma;&comma; it is supported by precedence&comma;” the source stated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Information however&comma; has it that Obasa has increased his tempo of consultation and lobby to ensure he retains the seat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;