Lagos Assembly: Exclusion of minority is tyranny in democracy – Mr-Ibile

The founder of Ibile Peaceful Assembly, Hon. Saheed  Mosadoluwa (Mr-Ibile) has described the exclusion of the minority leadership in the Lagos state House of Assembly as tyranny and undemocratic.

Mosadoluwa, said this while reacting to the fracas recently at the Lagos State House of Assembly on the exclusion of the offices of Minority Leader and Minority Whip in the House, saying the two positions are no longer necessary.

He described the Chairman, House Committee on Information, Strategy, Publicity and Security, Mr Tunde Braimoh, comment as “troubling conundrum”.

He said, “We are not saying majority rule is not necessary for expressing the popular will and the basis for establishing their deceptive and progressive’s campaign but minority is bound to disagree on any anti-people ideal of the majority.

“The Lagos State House Assembly should understand that the consensus cannot be the basis for making political or legislative decisions because minority rule is antithetical to democracy.

“Is this Lagos State House of assembly or fascist organization, I have not heard of any state assembly without minority leaders will surely pave way for executive arm reckless and rascality, APC members should not  abuse its powers to oppress the minority voters that send some of these traitors to that chamber to represent their communities.”

The founder of Ibile Peaceful Assembly also noted that  PDP members in their constituents were not consulted before the six members proceeded to decamped to APC, as these members were fascinated with what those in the APC camp are benefiting which  compel them to decamped from PDP  to APC.

He, however, mentioned that someone need to stand as a minority leader to represent the will of the minorities’ votes. “We should stop being economical with truth”, he added.

“It is time to compel Buraimoh to resign as the chairman Lagos Assembly house committee on information and strategies since his appointment as the chairman is not constitution guarantees but the creation of the assembly and that means the office that gave him the privilege to send deceptive information to the public is also based on the whims and the rules he just describes as fascist.”

The minority’s rights must be protected no matter how alienated a minority is from the majority members of Lagos state assembly; otherwise, the majority’s rights may lose its meaning.