DSS invasion of Lagos Assembly attempt to force Speaker Meranda to resign – Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour

TheNigerian — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:35:55 +0000

The 2023 Labour Party, LP, governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has alleged an attempt to use the Department of State Services, DSS, to force the Speaker of the state Assembly, Mojisola Meranda, to step aside or resign.

Rhodes-Vivour said the invasion of the Lagos State House of Assembly by DSS operatives was a major blow to politics in the state.

DAILY POST reported that operatives of the DSS and the Nigeria Police, on Monday, took over the Lagos State House of Assembly.

The invasion followed a leadership crisis in the State Assembly.

Recently, Meranda had replaced Mudashiru Obasa as Speaker of the Assembly after he was impeached by lawmakers.

Obasa was impeached while he was in the United States.

Upon his return to Nigeria, Obasa had insisted that he was not impeached, stressing that the lawmakers failed to follow due process in his removal.

However, featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Rhodes-Vivour said lawmakers must not owe their loyalty to godfathers.

He said: “It was a major low for politics in Lagos State today.

“What we saw today was an attempt to intimidate the speaker to step aside and resign by using armed men and threats of violence.

“Whoever is behind this should solve this problem in a civilized fashion because the State Assembly must owe its loyalty to its constituents and not any godfather.”

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Only Tinubu’s friends benefiting from reforms – Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour

TheNigerian — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 06:42:03 +0000

The governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 general election, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour has said that the economic reforms of the current administration are benefitting only a select few people.

President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s reforms since taking over office in May 2023 include the removal of fuel subsidy and the floating of the naira, the country’s currency, which the President recently vowed to sustain at all odds.

But Rhodes-Vivour sees no reason the majority of Nigerians are suffering while others feed fat.

“The people are experiencing unprecedented hardship. Today, over 70 per cent of people’s income is spent on transportation and food,” he said during an interview on Channels Television on Thursday.

“They’ve not even started to think about how they can afford accommodation.

“We have a situation where there is a culture of wastefulness, and extravagance that does not reflect the dire economic situation that the same President is pushing out that needs to be reformed.

“The only people that seem to be benefitting from these reforms are maybe the bankers, the people in government, and the President’s friends.

“How many Nigerians can say they are benefitting from any reform right now?” He queried.

According to report the removal of fuel subsidy and the floating of the Naira has pushed the inflation level to a new high.

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DSS invasion of Lagos Assembly attempt to force Speaker Meranda to resign – Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour

Only Tinubu’s friends benefiting from reforms – Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour