The former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, denied on Wednesday that he had stockpiled weaponry at his office in the house.
This comes as Mojisola Meranda, the incumbent Speaker of the House, has denied resigning.
Obasa denied being linked to certain guns purportedly discovered at his office.
According to online reports on Tuesday, officers from the Department of State Services uncovered 47 pump-action weapons during a Monday visit to the assembly.
Some versions of the news indicated the guns were found in his office, while others suggested they were in the former Chief Security Officer’s office.
In a statement provided by his aide and signed by him on Wednesday, the former Speaker branded the study as a “concoction.”
A DSS source informed newsmen on Tuesday that the report about the agency finding firearms at the gathering was untrue.
Obasa’s statement was titled Re: “DSS Uncovers Arms Cache In Obasa’s Office Day After Lagos Assembly Drama.”
He said, “The ill-conceived story, apart from being a complete concoction, clearly exposes its author and paymasters as maliciously of low intelligence quotient, only out to malign my hard-earned reputation spanning decades of political leadership and legislative hard work.
“From the foregoing, it is obviously discernible that my traducers are furtively attempting to call a dog a bad name just to hang it.”
“I consider their purported sudden discovery of ‘a cache of arms ammunition in the Speaker’s Office as nothing but an afterthought, having sensed the futility of their illegal actions.”
