Group Condemns Lagos Speaker’s Alleged Disrespect to Sanwo-Olu

•Suspects speaker’s camp leaked details of leaders’ meeting with Tinubu to get sympathy

A pro-Lagos advocacy group, Eko United, has condemned the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, for his alleged unceasing disrespect to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the office of the governor of Lagos State.

Leader of the group, Bolakale Akano, said last night, that they also suspected that a camp loyal Obasa, might have leaked details of the Friday meeting between President Bola Tinubu and select members of the Governors’ Advisory Council (GAC) in Lagos, to secure sympathy of the president.

The group though blamed leaders of the APC and its affiliate organs for allowing such a situation tarry for so long without reining in the speaker, he added that they all must share in the blame of what has been going on in the state.

“It would be the first time that a thing of this nature is happening in the state and we believe the decent nature of the governor prompted Mr. Obasa to outstep his bounds.

“Would he have tried that with any of the former governors? He would not even moot the idea. But because of the governor’s nice and kind nature, he thinks he can ride roughshod over him? Impossible!” he said.

The group, however,  maintained that the details of the Friday meeting with Tinubu, which many sources had claimed were correct, could not have been divulged by other senior and mature members of the ruling class in the state except by the camp on the receiving end.

Akano said it was unfortunate that details of a meeting at that level would be leaked just because of “a man’s desperation to unpack the pieces of the mess he consciously created,” adding that the strategy had failed from inception.

THISDAY had exclusively reported yesterday that Tinubu and the leadership of GAC, weekend, warned Obasa, against disrespecting Sanwo-Olu, and the office of the governor under whatever guise.

This development, THISDAY gathered, played up after members of the GAC visited the president in Lagos, on Friday, upon his return to the state for the end of the year break.

Chairman of GAC, Alhaji Tajudeen Olusi, THISDAY was told, opened the floor for the discussion, when he told the president he wanted to give him a situation report on the state of play in the state.

The old man, who reminded the president of how highly the governor’s office was held in the state, when he was governor between 1999 and 2007, allegedly told the president that the disrespect that Governor Sanwo-Olu hadsuffered in the hands of the speaker was no longer acceptable.

Irked by the report, Tinubu was said to have openly lashedhim for not just disrespecting the governor and his office, but also for poorly managing the politics of the state and causing division.

It was against this backdrop that the group concluded that persons loyal to the speaker must have leaked the details of the meeting with a view to securing the sympathy of the president, whom he knew was already angry.