Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, has made a startling revelation that he came dangerously close to losing his position last year as a direct result of allegations surrounding actor-turned-politician Desmond Elliot during the Lagos State House of Assembly speakership tussle.
Speaking in a video widely circulating on social media on Thursday, Gbajabiamila disclosed that President Tinubu personally summoned him to his Abuja residence at the peak of the crisis surrounding the attempted impeachment of former Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Obasa.
According to Gbajabiamila, the President confronted him with intelligence reports allegedly linking Elliot, who represents Surulere Constituency I in the Lagos State House of Assembly, to efforts to destabilise the state legislature.
“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 narrated.
The Chief of Staff however revealed that he swiftly defended Elliot against the damaging allegations, insisting to the President that the lawmaker was not involved in the crisis.
“Immediately I said to Mr. President, no, no, no. Desmond is not part of them. I haven’t even spoken to him. I didn’t know whether he was part of that. I said, no, he’s not part of them,” he added.
The revelation sheds fresh light on the earlier widely reported public apology by Desmond Elliot to Gbajabiamila, which many political observers now view as a direct acknowledgment of the political storm his alleged actions nearly caused his longtime ally.
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