Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila has revealed he nearly lost his job after President Bola Tinubu received intelligence linking him and lawmaker Desmond Elliot to the 2025 impeachment plot against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Obasa.
Femi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, has disclosed that he nearly lost his position last year due to the political turmoil surrounding the impeachment of Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. Addressing members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday, May 14, 2026, Gbajabiamila recounted a tense meeting in Abuja where the President questioned his loyalty. According to the Chief of Staff, the President acted on intelligence suggesting that Gbajabiamila was the hidden hand behind the move to unseat Obasa, using his political protégé, lawmaker Desmond Elliot, as a proxy. “I almost lost my job as Chief of Staff last year because of Desmond Elliot. Mr President called me to his house in Abuja during the Lagos Speaker Obasa saga. He said, ‘I hear this Desmond is your boy, the one we gave you,’ and I said, ‘Yes, sir. He is one of the people causing problems in the Lagos House of Assembly,’” Gbajabiamila stated.
The situation reportedly escalated when the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) contacted Gbajabiamila to report that his name was being frequently cited in connection with the legislative coup. Despite Gbajabiamila’s insistence that Elliot was not involved in the plot, the President maintained that his own intelligence reports suggested otherwise. “Immediately, I told the president that Desmond wasn’t part of them, but the president replied and said that, from the intelligence he received, Desmond was part of them. Three days later, the DSS DG called me and said there was a problem. He said your name is being mentioned, that you’re the one behind the impeachment saga and that you’re supporting Desmond,” he revealed.
The crisis within the Lagos Assembly, which saw Obasa briefly removed in January 2025 before being reinstated following presidential intervention and a court ruling, has left a lingering rift between Gbajabiamila and Elliot. The Chief of Staff expressed frustration that despite his personal defense of the actor-turned-politician to the President, Elliot failed to issue a public statement to clear their names. “I spoke to the DSS DG and told him I had spoken to Desmond and he denied being part of the group. I then asked Desmond to make a public statement denying his involvement in the impeachment saga, but till today, he hasn’t done it,” Gbajabiamila noted, highlighting the unresolved nature of the controversy even as Elliot seeks a fourth term in the House.
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