{"id":13872,"date":"2023-06-07T08:04:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13872"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:04:20","slug":"obasa-makes-history-reelected-speaker-3rd-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13872","title":{"rendered":"Obasa Makes History, Reelected Speaker 3rd Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa has been re-elected by his colleagues to lead the Lagos State House of Assembly as Speaker for the third consecutive time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lawmakers also elected Hon. Mojisola Lasbat Meranda as the Deputy Speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Obasa was unanimously re-elected after a proclamation of the 10th Assembly of the Lagos State House of Assembly by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who was present with Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat and top government officials at the chamber of the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Obasa, the most ranking member of the House, was nominated by Hon. Temitope Adewale, who was seconded by Sylvester Ogunkelu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hon. Noheem Adams, the Deputy Majority Leader in the ninth Assembly, was elected as the new Majority Leader while Hon. Adedamola Kasunmu was elected the Deputy Majority Leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hon. Mojeed Fatai of Ibeju Lekki 1 was elected as the Chief Whip while Hon. David Setonji was elected the Deputy Chief Whip.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa has been re-elected by his colleagues to lead the Lagos State House of Assembly as Speaker for the third consecutive time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[251,1969,407],"class_list":["post-13872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-lagos-assembly","tag-mudashiru-ajayi-obasa","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13874,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872\/revisions\/13874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}