Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru
Obasa, on Friday, narrated how All Progressives Congress chieftain and former
governor of the state, Bola Tinubu, supported his ambition to become the speaker
of the Assembly in 2015.
The speaker made the revelation today during inauguration of
the Agege-Pen Cinema Bridge in the Agege Local Government Area.
Obasa, who represents Agege 01 in the Assembly, took over
from ex-speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji in 2015.
While thanking Tinubu on Friday, the first speaker from Agege said, “Our father, we can’t thank him enough, what we are doing here in Agege today, he laid the foundation in 1992 and we have continued to build and sustain that foundation. And we have resolved, we will never let you down. We will continue to stand for that name BAT – Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“If you look around in Agege, politically you talk about
Obasa, you talk about (Babatunde) Adejare, you talk about (Taofeek) Adaranijo,
Asiwaju is our source, all of us, they are all here and I am bearing testimony.
Before I joined the House of Assembly, I started as a
councillor here in this local government. Our first primary election took place
in Airport Hotel. If not for his (Tinubu) intervention. We had about five
delegates or six and about contestants. I had three (votes), the other person
had two (votes) and another person had one and the person with one vote left to
join the man that had two, making 3-3.
“If they had suspended that election, that would have been
the end of it but because of his (Tinubu) intervention, it was resolved, there
and there and that was the first time of Mudashiru Obasa in the Lagos State
House of Assembly and without that there wouldn’t have been a speaker from
Agege. Asiwaju, we thank you. God will bless you. God will continue to sustain
you.”
Reacting, Tinubu described the APC in the state as “seekers
of talents”, saying that was what he spotted in Obasa.
Tinubu said, “I listened to the honourable speaker tell the
story of our intervention and his election, that is what leadership is for. We,
in APC, are seekers of talents. We don’t destroy talents, we develop talents,
we fish for them, we refine them and give them the responsibilities. That is
what we find in Obasa, that is what we find Sanwo-Olu, that is what we find in
Hamzat. To me, this is an homecoming to Agege.”
Others at the event include Lagos State Governor, Babajide
Sanwo-Olu; Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat; monarchs, market leaders, and
members of the Agege community.
The 1.4 kilometre-long bridge is expected to end the
discomfort currently experienced by motorists plying Agege-Abule Egba and
Agege-Iyana-Ipaja axes.
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