Staff and the members of the Lagos State House of Assembly will remain burdened by the demise of the Senator Sikiru Adebayo Osinowo, the representative of Lagos East at the National Assembly.
The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, who made this statement the news if the death of Sen. Osinowo has come as a rude shock that many of the lawmakers were yet to recover from.
According to Obasa, the House was “about to begin the plenary session of the day when the news of his demise filtered in and threw the whole Assembly into disarray and mourning“.
The Speaker, who refer to the demised lawmaker as a “political pillar and peace maker”, recounted how “for the 16 years ( 2003- 2019) he was in the Lagos State House of Assembly representing the good people of Kosofe Constituency 1, many loved him for the stabilising role he played at every point in the period.
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Dr. Obasa, who stressed that throughout Sen. Osinowo stay in the House, “many lawmakers ran to him for solutions to their socio-political problems, because of the sagacity and wisdom he applied to issues“, prayed that God should strengthen all those he left behind.
The Lagos Speaker also noted that the “Muslim community of the Lagos House of Assembly will forever be grateful to him for his fatherly role and financial commitment to their course particularly in the building of the ultra-modern mosque within the Assembly complex.”
Eko Herald 
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