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A major crisis is brewing in the Lagos State House of Assembly as leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state are said to have resolved to stop the current Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, from coming back for a third term.

Obasa has been in the House since 2003 and has been Speaker since June, 2015. He was re-elected in the last general election and had again indicated his interest to contest for the plum job. His ambition, Thepledge has gathered, is however being met with strong opposition by leaders of the APC in the state, some of who are of the opinion that a thorough bred Lagosian should hold the top position this time around.

The leaders, including the head of the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), Chief Tajudeen Olusi were said to have held a meeting after the elections where they concluded that the next Speaker must be an indigene of the state, adding that it has become unacceptable for the top three positions to be held by people who are not ‘indigenes’ of the state.