And just when it appeared the political waters were settling, the veteran lawmaker has once again found himself at the centre of recent whispers.
Given that the dramatic impeachment saga that briefly shook the Lagos Situation House of Assembly, Speaker Mudashiru Obasa has remained a usual name in the ever-turbulent theatre of Lagos politics.
But those seal to Obasa have swiftly pushed support against the insinuation.
His supporters insist that the Speaker had no hand in the decision of Egunjobi and Yusuf to leave the APC, maintaining that the two politicians independently made their political choices later than losing out in the primaries.
But despite his intervention, Egunjobi and Yusuf could not clinch the coveted tickets.
Obasa, who himself secured the APC ticket to contest the House of Representatives election in 2027, was said to have thrown his weight behind the two aspirants.
And then came the political twist.
Population Watch gathered that tongues have begun wagging in political circles, alongside some accusing the Speaker of secretly encouraging the movement of his loyalists to another political platform. The whispers have inevitably triggered the usual “anti-party” query.
This time, the intrigue is coming from Agege, his typical political backyard.
That advance has now opened another intriguing chapter in the Obasa political story.
Unwilling to abandon their ambitions, both politicians reportedly moved out of the APC and secured tickets on the platform of the Allied Humans’s Movement, APM, to contest the 2027 Lagos Status House of Assembly election.
During the current All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries, two politicians regarded as Obasa loyalists, Ganiyu Egunjobi and Azeez Yusuf, failed to protected the party’s tickets for Agege Constituencies 1 and 2, respectively. The development reportedly did not go down quietly.
For now, the allegations persist allegations. But the development has added yet another intriguing subplot to Obasa’s already colourful political narratives.
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