QUICK FACTS:

has instituted an investigation into the adminstration of Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, the immediate past governor of the state

the Lagos Assembly appointed Mr. Fatai Mojeed, a lawmaker from Ibeju-Lekki I State Constituency to head the investigative committee comprising 15 other lawmakers

look into the procurement of 820 High Occupancy Vehicles for state’s public transportation at N45 billion to probe Ambode’s Light-up Lagos and Imota Rice Mill projects, among others

- legation that Ambode’s administration procured the 820 vehicles with the state’s share of Paris Club refund without the approval of the State House of Assembly

contention that the procurement was done without budgetary approval

succession politics in mid-2018 purely to stop his aspiration to serve a second term. Ambode eventually lost the return ticket

on October 7 with different reports indicating that former commissioners in Ambode’s government indicted the former governor before the ad-hoc committee

- mine whether the Ambode administration arbitrarily spent two tranches of Paris Club refunds it received from the Federal second in September 2017

*The probe panel has the mandate of the - istration spent public funds without the approval of the State House

in default of appropriations clause, in of the incumbent governor to allocate funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund meet expenditure of the state while the appropriation bill is awaiting the approval of the State House of Assembly. It also set the limit to what the executive comes into forforce

to face legislative investigation. Between 2009 and 2011, Ambode’s immediate predecessor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) faced legislative scrutiny as a sitting governor, under the speakership of Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, the State House of Assembly probed and initiated impeachment proceedings against Fashola