Former General Officer Commanding (GOC) and Minister of Communications, Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (Rtd), has condemned the Monday morning takeover of the offices of the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, and Clerk of Lagos State House of Assembly, saying it was an abuse of power.
Olanrewaju, who is a former Deputy Defence Adviser in Moscow, Russia, said this in his reaction to the development, noting that the country’s political institutions had developed from the low many decades ago and could not regress to that anymore.
The former minister maintained that what occurred, regarding the storming of the Lagos State House of Assembly by men of the DSS, was condemnable and, therefore, urged indigenes to stand up together and defend their state heritage.
“Lagos State indigenes must stand up together and defend their state heritage. Lagos State indigenes must stand up together and defend their state heritage.
“Our political institutions have developed from the low many decades ago. We can’t go back to that anymore. In contemporary developing countries and Nigeria inclusive, one of the greatest political deficits lies in the relative weakness of the rule of law.
“Of all the components of contemporary states, effective legal institutions are perhaps the most difficult to construct or endure. Let the rule of law prevail in the tussle for the speakership position in the Lagos State Assembly,” General Olanrewaju said.
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