The Lagos State House of Assembly has denounced the statements that its legislators have secretly enacted Sharia law.
This is coming as some speculations on social media claimed that the lawmakers are on a deal to get Northern support for Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate.
In a statement released by Hon. Setonji David, chairman of Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Security, and Strategy, stated that the assertion is untrue.
Hon. David also said the Assembly has at no time passed a Sharia law in a deal to get Northern support for the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate. Adding that people should not believe the vendors of such misconception.
According to the legislator in the statement titled ‘Alleged secret passage of Sharia Law by Lagos Assembly, a lie from the pit of hell’, stated that the claim is malicious and baseless.
Part of the statement reads “We would not have dignified the writer of this hate speech but to set the record straight, this is a mere figment of the imagination of the writer and a total lie from the pit of hell.
“No informed person should believe this lies against the Assembly that is above the common standard of excellence. The news is far from the reality,” Hon David alleged.
“Some people are just mischievous. Spreading all sorts of untrue stuff. Is it possible to pass a law under cover? The process of law-making is universal and very open. You cannot pass a law without subjecting it to a public hearing in Lagos State.
“We urged the residents of the state and Nigerians as a whole to take the peddlers of this unfounded report as illiterate, uninformed, and uneducated people who needed to be schooled about the law-making process.”
Hon. David also bragged that Tinubu is a fast-selling product across the country and does not need any law from the state to further promote him to all Nigerians.
In addition, he said he is confident that by the Special Grace of God, the former Lagos State Governor would emerge the winner of the 2023 Presidential election to humiliate the peddlers of such mockery statements.
