For years, the political friendship between former Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, and member representing Surulere Constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Desmond Elliot, was the stuff of political folklore in Lagos corridors of power.
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives was widely credited as the singular force behind the Nollywood-turned-politician’s remarkable legislative journey — from celluloid fame to three terms on the floor of the assembly.
Society Watch gathered that as recently as 2023, it was the former Speaker’s intervention that saved Elliot from what would have been a most embarrassing political exit from the assembly — a fact that underscores just how consequential that relationship once was...Read The Complete; Full Original Here.>>>