Lagos Assembly is a private enterprise, the owner hires & fires at will —Pa Bode George
Bode George, a former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has criticized the Lagos state house of assembly for reinstating Mudashiru Obasa as speaker.
George questioned why Obasa was reinstated without addressing the allegations that led to his removal. Speaking in an interview with news men on Saturday, George accused the assembly of acting like a “private enterprise” rather than a democratic institution.
“If they are deceiving themselves, they cannot deceive the general public, if you are the leader of a party and the party was going to go through a procedure, and they accused the speaker of a lot of inappropriate activities financial and otherwise shouldn’t you even address those issues?
“Since he didn’t do it, there is no need for Obasa to respond to the allegations levelled against him. The same people came back and reinstated or re-elected him. It is an indecent approach to what democracy is all about.
“If you were accused of certain misdemeanor openly and people went through a process by which they said enough of you, if you want to come back, you know you will have to defend yourself first. It’s already in the public domain, but there was an order that he should be reinstated since it is a private enterprise.
“Do you return people like that in a democratic dispensation to override whatever others had been saying? Is it that those Assembly members didn’t know what they had been talking about before they removed Obasa, or they are absolutely acting like a military organisation?”
