BREAKING: Sanwo-Olu Presents New List of Commissioner Nominees to Lagos House of Assembly
- Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state has submitted a new list of commissioner nominees to the House of Assembly, including former health commissioner Professor Akin Abayomi
- This comes after the previous list, containing 39 nominees, was partially rejected by lawmakers
- The newly proposed list features a diverse group of individuals for potential commissioner roles in the state government.
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Ikeja, Lagos state - Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state has presented a new list of commissioner nominees to the House of Assembly.
Former health commissioner Professor Akin Abayomi, Gbenga Omotosho, and others made the new list, according to TVC News.
Source: Twitter
Legit.ng recalls that the lawmakers rejected 17 of the 39 commissioners-nominees sent by Governor Sanwo-Olu.
Six nominees, who served in Sanwo-Olu's first term, were among the 17 declined by the state parliament during plenary.
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Full List of commissioner nominees resubmitted by Sanwo-Olu
- Prof. Akin Abayomi
- Gbenga Omotosho
- Sam Egube
- Oluwaseun Oriyomi Osiyemi
- Afolabi Abiodun Tajudeen
- Engr. Olalere Odusote
- Folashade Kaosarat Ambrose-Medem
- Akinyemi Bankole Ajigbotafe
- Tolani Sule Akibu
- Cecilia Dada
- Barakat Akande Bakare
- Mosopefoluwa George
- Yekini Nurudeen Agbaje
- Olumide Oluyinka
- Abayomi Samson Oluyomi
- Iyabode Oyeyemi Ayoola
- Sola Shakirudeen Giwa
Lagos Speaker Obasa speaks on rejected commissioner-nominees
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, declared that the assembly would not be threatened or intimated following its rejection of some commissioner-nominees submitted by Governor Sanwo-Olu.
Obasa added that there were plans by some people to attack him and other lawmakers over the Lagos assembly’s decision to reject some of Sanwo-Olu’s commissioner-nominees.
This was contained in a statement issued and sent to Legit.ng by Obasa’s Media Assistant, Eromosele Ebhomele, on Monday, August 28.
Sanwo-Olu’s commissioner-nominees: Ex-Lagos guber candidate reacts
Meanwhile, criticism had trailed the list of commissioners nominated by Sanwo-Olu.
Some Muslims had described the composition of Sanwo-Olu’s nominees “as a continuation of the governor’s longstanding bias against Muslims in the state”.
But speaking to Legit.ng in an interview, Tope Abdurrazaq Balogun, a one-time governorship candidate, and a practising Muslim, defended the governor's cabinet.
Source: Legit.ng
