The former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, on Wednesday, denied reports linking him to stockpiling guns at his office at the assembly.
This is as the current Speaker of the House, Mojisola Meranda, also denied resigning from her position.
Online reports on Tuesday alleged that 47 pump-action guns were discovered by officials of the Department of State Services during a visit to the assembly on Monday.
Some versions of the reports claimed the weapons were found in Obasa’s office, while others suggested they were in the former Chief Security Officer’s office.
In a statement released by his aide and signed by Obasa on Wednesday, the former Speaker described the report as a “concoction.”
A source in the DSS had on Tuesday said that the report about the agency uncovering weapons at the assembly was false.
Obasa’s statement was titled Re: “DSS Uncovers Arms Cache In Obasa’s Office Day After Lagos Assembly Drama.”
He said, “The ill-conceived story, apart from being a complete concoction, clearly exposes its author and paymasters as maliciously of low intelligence quotient, only out to malign my hard-earned reputation spanning decades of political leadership and legislative hard work.
“From the foregoing, it is obviously discerning that my traducers are furtively attempting to call a dog a bad name just to hang it.”
“I consider their purported sudden discovery of ‘cache of arms ammunition in the Speaker’s Office as nothing but an afterthought, having sensed the futility of their illegal actions,” Obasa added.
Similarly, the Speaker’s Chief Press Secretary, Segun Ajiboye, debunked the story that his principal, Meranda, had resigned.
An online report on Wednesday suggested that Meranda resigned her position, referencing an unconfirmed letter allegedly emanating from the speaker and circulating on social media for two days.
However, checks by our correspondent showed that there was no Meranda’s signature on the letter dated February 17, 2025.
In a chat on Wednesday, Meranda’s aide, Ajiboye, said, “I’m in the office. The Speaker is in the office. I don’t know where that (resignation report) is coming from.”
