Is the storm over between Sanwo-Olu and Obasa?
Is this renewed joviality in the best interest of Lagosians?
On August 23, the Lagos State House of Assembly rejected 17 of the 39 commissioners presented by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The scale of the rejection was unprecedented since the All Progressives Congress (in its many forms) began to dominate Lagos politics in 1999. The word on the street was that Speaker Mudashiru Obasa wasn’t happy with the Sanwo-Olu-led administration.
Obasa was quick to frame the rejection as part of the democratic process, pointing out that the list of commissioner-nominees did not meet the quality of representation required. “If they have not done well, we have the right to say no,” Obasa said at the time. “And we have said no, so we are not going to be threatened. And it is good to advise the man living in a glass house not to throw stones; if not, the glass may soon be shattered.”
Some analysts offered a number of reasons for the rejection, includ…
