Desmond Elliot Says He Believed Obasa Impeachment Directive Came From President

The lawmaker representing Surulere 1 Constituency in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Desmond Elliot, has admitted that he participated in the impeachment saga of the Lagos Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa.

Desmond Elliot made this known while reacting to comments made by President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila on the Obasa leadership crisis as well as claims that he almost lost his job, it was reported.

Recall that some members of the state assembly impeached Obasa as Speaker but the President overruled their decision.

Gbajabiamila, who spoke at a gathering, said that he advised Elliott to stay away from the plot to impeach the Speaker, but he was not listened to.

He also said that following a call from the Director General of the Department of State Security (DSS), he asked Desmond Elliott to dissociate himself from the plot to remove Obasa in a public statement but the lawmaker refused.

But, while speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’, Desmond Elliot said he was surprised to hear that Gbajabiamila almost lost his position over Obasa’s leadership crisis.

The movie star turned politician said he believed the order to impeach Obasa was from President Tinubu, stressing that many other lawmakers signed before him.

“I was out of the country, to be honest, my wife and I travelled during that period between January and Febuary,” he said. We were in recess and it was an opportunity for us to travel, that was the time Honourable Mudashiru Obasa was impeached, it came to me as shock because I was in South Africa then, so two days after I came back, I was also as confused as everybody was, and I saw that almost everybody had signed.

I pretty much thought that the directive was from the President and I appended my own signature, some people who travelled and came back also appended their signature. Later Mr President called us and made us understand that the directive was not from him and asked us to return the Speaker and we did. “So it was a shock to me when my leader came out and said he nearly lost his job.”