Lagos Assembly Speaker, Obasa may contest Reps seat in 2027

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, is reportedly considering a bid for the House of Representatives spot representing Agege Federal Constituency up of the 2027 wide elections.

The improvement suggests a imaginable displacement from his earlier ambition to contention the Lagos State governorship.

Obasa had antecedently been linked with a governorship bid and was said to person engaged successful extended consultations crossed the state, leveraging the governmental operation of the Mandate Group, which is associated with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to physique support.

However, sources wrong the All Progressives Congress, APC, indicated that the program was altered pursuing a determination by enactment leadership, reportedly led by Tinubu, to backmost the existent Deputy Governor, Obafemi Hamzat, arsenic the preferred governorship candidate.

In the aftermath of that development, Obasa was said to person explored the anticipation of contesting for the Lagos West Senatorial seat, wherever helium considered challenging incumbent legislator Idiat Adebule.

That option, however, reportedly met absorption from influential enactment stakeholders, peculiarly supporters of Adebule, who is regarded arsenic a cardinal pistillate typical from the South-West successful the Senate.

Subsequent consultations are said to person led to caller proposal from enactment leadership, with Tinubu reportedly encouraging Obasa to prosecute ...