Lagos Assembly Crisis: “Defend Your Heritage”- Gen Olanrewaju Tells Indigenes After DSS Invasion

Gen. Tajudeen Olanrewaju (rtd)  has described the invasion of the Lagos state House of Assembly on Monday by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, as an abuse of power.

Olanrewaju, the former Minister of Communications said the action of the DSS should not be permitted in a democratic government, describing it as a ‘low’ point which should not have been allowed to happen.

The magazine reports that the takeover of the House of Assembly was the latest in the crisis that has rocked the Assembly following the removal of Mudasiru obasa as Speaker and his replacement with Mojisola Meranda on January 14.

The attack on the Assembly has however sparked a serious outrage from not a few Nigerians, who are calling for a probe of the incident, particularly after suggestions that the operation could not have happened with ‘Abuja’ support.

Abuja refers to the Nigeria’s Presidency, which according to sources, is angling for the return of former Speaker Obasa.

President Tinubu had following his impeachment by majority lawmakers of the assembly described the action as a ‘coup’ according to sources privy to one of the meetings between the president and the Governance Advisory Council, GAC, an advisory body in the state, headed by the Governor to mitigate the crisis.

Olanrewaju condemned the incident, calling on the indigenes of the state to  defend the ‘state heritage’ to stop it from regressing to an ignominious past.

He said, “Lagos State indigenes must stand up together and defend their state heritage. Lagos State indigenes must stand up together and defend their state heritage.

“Our political institutions have developed from the low many decades ago. We can’t go back to that anymore. In contemporary developing countries and Nigeria inclusive, one of the greatest political deficits lies in the relative weakness of the rule of law.

“Of all the components of contemporary states, effective legal institutions are perhaps the most difficult to construct or endure. Let the rule of law prevail in the tussle for the speakership position in the Lagos State Assembly.”