Matilda Omonaiye/
| A coalition of civil society groups under the auspices of Lagos Liberation Movement (LLM) has threatened to occupy and shut down the Lagos State House of Assembly if lawmakers proceed with the impeachment moves against the state governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode. The coalition described the impeachment move as anti-people and The lawmakers had threatened to commence impeachment proceedings against the governor over alleged gross misconduct particularly with regards to the 2019 budget of the State. |
| Addressing a world press conference at the Airport Hotel in Ikeja, the groups which include the Campaign for Democracy (CD), United Action For Democracy (UAD), Centre for Public Accountability (CPA), Democracy Volunteers (DV), Ajegunle Collectives, Lagos People’s Assembly (LPA), Oodua People’s Congress (Reformed), Yoruba Revolutionary Assembly (YORA) and Ohanaeze Youth, Lagos, said with the development, it was obvious that the Lagos Assembly was becoming a political abattoir for the murder of democracy in Nigeria. LLM Convener, Comrade Mark Adebayo specifically accused a national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as being the architect of the impeachment saga, and urged all Lagosians and genuine compatriots across the country to strongly resist the move by the Lagos lawmakers against the governor. He said it was obvious that the whole saga was a direct assault by a few political marauders determined to supplant democracy and jeopardize peace and development in the dynasty. |