I had no hand in Obasa’s impeachment — Desmond Elliot

The lawmaker representing Surulere I successful the Lagos State House of Assembly, Desmond Elliot, has distanced himself from the allegations that helium played a starring relation successful the impeachment of Speaker Mudashiru Obasa successful 2025.

Elliot, successful an interrogation connected ‘Sunrise Daily’, a programme connected Channels Television on Tuesday, insisted that helium neither initiated nor masterminded the impeachment process.

The Nollywood star-turned person noted that helium was extracurricular Nigeria erstwhile Obasa was removed arsenic Speaker and lone signed the impeachment papers aft returning and discovering that the bulk of lawmakers had already endorsed it.

“It was a taxable that was already dormant and buried. It was sorted retired and the House is already moving on. Right Honourable Mudashiru Obasa continued arsenic the Speaker of the House.

“I did not mastermind anything. I had thing astatine all. The lone happening I did was to append my signature erstwhile I came backmost and I saw a clump of us, if not each of us, had already appended a signature to say, ‘Oh, it was the enactment who wanted it.’

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