By Tosin Olatokunbo
The Speaker of the Lagos state house of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa has not been able to shrug off public angst against him over allegation of corruption and abuse of office as the number three citizen in the state of Excellence.
Obasa has been accused of committing financial scam including the discovery of 64 accounts he allegedly used to frisk several millions of naira from the state.
The lawmaker, however elicited more condemnation after he told Dele Momodu, Publisher of Ovasion, in an interview, that “you must spend (public) money” in response to a number of financial corruption allegations against him.
The viral video published by Sahara Reporters appears to have put the Lagos Speaker more on the sport and call for his resignation from office has further gained ground.
The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP has now joined well meaning Nigerians calling on Obasa to step aside from his position.
The opposition party said APC has become a bastion of corruption and that there are underground efforts by Obasa’s party, APC to cover up the allege scam and shield him from prosecution by anti-graft agency such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
According to s statement by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, some APC leaders in the state has ensured that the state remains under oppression and deep corruption, in other to continue to fester their own nests, insisting that huge revenue accruing to the state from taxation and the federal governor are not being well accounted for.
PDP lashed out at APC that “our party is however not surprised that the APC and its leaders have remained silent on an allegation, which had already gained national and international prominence; a development that only points to the complicity of a party that brims as sanctuary of corruption with unequaled proclivity for concealment.
This is especially when viewed with the exposed humongous sleazes in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development; the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA); the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) among others, under the APC administration.”
Obasa, the PDP said must step down to allow for independent investigation on the matter, as the APC and the state government are under serious moral burden to prove that they are not in support of corruption.
