{"id":9219,"date":"2024-04-24T09:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T09:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng\/home\/?page_id=9219"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:09:56","slug":"office-of-the-speaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng\/home\/office-of-the-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of the Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Position\n\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly is its Political Head. Elected by the Members\/ legislators of the Assembly.

The Speaker is best known as the person who presides over the affairs of the House and guides the proceedings impartially.

His\/Her statutory duty is to preside over the sitting and deliberations of the Assembly.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Key Responsibilities and Duties of the Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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– The Speaker takes the Chair on every Legislative day. He has full authority to make sure Members follow the rules of the House during proceedings.<\/p>

– He\/she signs all acts, addresses, resolutions, writs, warrants issued by order of the House.<\/p>

– In conjunction with the Selection Committee of the House, the Speaker chooses Members of the Committees of the House and appoints the Chairmen of the Committee of the House.<\/p>

– Aside from duties relating to presiding over the House, the Speaker also performs administrative and procedural functions.<\/p>

–\u00a0 The Speaker also represents the voters of his or her constituency.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Since inauguration of the state House of Assembly on October 2, 1979, there have been 9 legislative Assemblies with 6 representatives holding the office of Speaker. The Speaker of the 1st Legislative Assembly was Rt. Hon Oladosun Oshinowo and the incumbent speaker is Rt. <\/b>Hon. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Under this great office are :<\/p>\n

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    • Office of the Chief of Staff<\/li>\n
    • Office of the Special Advisers to the Speaker<\/li>
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      The Position The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly is its Political Head. Elected by the Members\/ legislators of the Assembly. The Speaker is best known as the person who presides over the affairs of the House and guides the proceedings impartially. His\/Her statutory duty is to preside over the sitting and deliberations…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagoshouseofassembly.gov.ng\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}