Lagos State House of Assembly member, Desmond Elliot, has responded to remarks by Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, that he (Elliot) signed the impeachment letter against Speaker Mudashiru Obasa.
Obasa was in the eye of the storm in January, and barely escaped being impeached as the speaker of the House of Assembly by estranged members.
Elliot, made the clarification during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, while responding to Gbajabiamila’s allegation, that he nearly lost his job over intelligence linking Elliot to the impeachment attempt.
“I would like to state categorically that I wasn’t in the country”, Elliot said, adding: “My wife and I travelled during the period of January 13th of 2025.
“We were in recess and then it was an opportunity for us to travel to attend my wife’s younger sister’s wedding.
“That was the time Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa was impeached.
“It came to me as a shock because I was in South Africa then. So, obviously, it took me about two days to come back. I was also as confused as everybody was.
“And then I saw that almost everybody had signed. And pretty much we thought it was from the presidency. In all fairness, we thought it was from the presidency.
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“And, of course, I appended my own signature. I believe I was maybe 30-something person at that point in time because others who had travelled had returned and others who signed.
“But eventually, Mr President called us and made us understand that it was not from him and asked us to return the speaker.
“And we did,” he added.
For Desmond Elliot however, “So, my leader (Gbajabiamila) coming to say this, that I almost lost his job, one I have served and has also been there for me for this long, to have said that came to me as a shock,” he said.
