Jimi Agbaje has begged the Lagos State House of Assembly to state the reason behind their attempt to impeach Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.
He went ahead to allege that the Lagos lawmakers were using the current drama of delayed presentation of the 2019 budget as an excuse.
His words, “Of course, the way Lagos politics has been structured over the last two decades, government actions are often dictated by open and covert objectives. That the legislators are hinging their action on the purported delay of the budget is simply a smokescreen for a very shameful undertone that the honorable assembly members will not want to make open.
“They are yet to tell us their actual motivation for this superfluous move to shame the Governor.”
“I received the news of the impending impeachment of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode with a lot of reservation, especially with its timing and motive. This is just 19 or so days to the Federal elections and the governorship, a fortnight thereafter. So the natural questions to ask are: Why this haste? And what is the motive?”
“Governance has ground to a halt owing to the schism between the two arms of government, both of which are dominated by All Progressives Congress. From all indications and from the findings that I have conducted, the action of the lawmakers is nothing but self-serving as dictated to them by the cabal ruling the state.”
