Serial governorship aspirant in Lagos State, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has accused the state’s assembly speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, of impersonation over claims to be a legal practitioner.
Gbadamosi made this known in an open letter addressed to the embattled speaker on Thursday.
Obasa has come under attack after the Supreme Court, in a letter dated July 24th, denied having his record.
“This is to inform you that we have checked our records and cannot find the name: Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa on the numerous rolls of legal practitioners kept in this honourable court,” the Apex court stated.
Obasa, however, has insisted that he graduated from the Nigerian Law School in 2009.
“I received some of my classmates from Nigerian Law school class 2008-09 who paid me a solidarity visit to dispel what they read on social media. I am not perturbed by the actions of those talebearers who feel aggrieved by my job as a legislator. I truly appreciate your visit,” he wrote on Monday.
In reaction, a real estate mogul, Gbadamosi, said Obasa would be known as “a liar, a fraud, a forger and an impersonator” if indeed he didn’t attend law school.
The People’s Democratic Party chieftain, however, urged the speaker to defend himself or resign with immediate effect.
Read full letter below:
Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa
Speaker
Lagos State House of Assembly,Nigeria
Alausa, Ikeja.
Dear Mr. Speaker,
ALLEGATIONS OF IMPERSONATION
It has come to my attention that you officially referred to yourself as a lawyer, and indeed have quoted with great exactitude your year of graduation from the Faculty of Law at LASU and indeed, the esteemed Nigerian Law School.
It has also come to my attention that this claim has been severally alleged to be false. These allegations, if true, would suggest that the person occupying the exalted seat of the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly is, in fact, a liar, a fraud, a forger and an impersonator.
Considering that the Lagos State House of Assembly is charged with making laws for the 5th largest economy in Africa, this would make your position completely untenable and the legality of EVERY LAW YOU HAVE PASSED, in this term and your previous one debatable.
These grave implications for my state, where I pay my taxes religiously, and even the idea that the taxes that I toil daily to pay may have been used to fund a criminal gives me no choice but to ask you to come clean on this question with absolute finality, or resign from that seat with immediate effect, as doing otherwise amounts to deliberately dragging the office of the speaker and indeed the entire legal profession into serious disrepute.
Let us agree that these people are your classmates. Are you saying you graduated from the Nigerian Law School and were called to the bar?
ARE YOU A LAWYER, SIR? Of course, you know I dropped out of the law program at LASU, but would never dare pretend to be a lawyer.
I urge you to answer this question definitively with the urgency it demands, or resign with immediate effect.
Please remain assured of my highest consideration.
Babatunde O. Gbadamosi
Lagosian.
