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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, transmitted a second list of commissioner-nominees to the House of Assembly.
This is coming few weeks after the Assembly confirmed 22 and rejected 17 out of the 39 nominees earlier sent to it for screening and confirmation.
The immediate past Commissioners of Health and Economic Planning and Budget, Prof. Akin Abayomi and Sam Egube, who were among the 17 nominees rejected by the House, made the new list.
The ad hoc committee led by the Chief Whip, Fatai Mojeed, who screened the previous nominees, will also screen the new set of nominees, according to a statement posted to the Assembly ’s verified X handle, on Monday.
“Governor’s Nominees for Commissioners: Speaker Obasa calls on the committee that handled the previous nominees to take charge on the new list sent by the Governor, @jidesanwoolu, and report back to the House by Thursday 7/09/2023.
“Some of the nominees have their documents with you, and you can reach out to the new nominees. I want you to be thorough and do the needful while carrying out this exercise,” the statement read.
The rejection of the 17 nominees by the Assembly had raised dust among politicians and residents of the state.
The Governance Advisory Council (GAC), the apex leadership body of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, waded into the circumstances surrounding the rejection and directed the Sanwo-Olu and Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, to meet and settle their differences.
This was after Obasa raised an alarm on the floor of the House that there were threats of attack on him and his colleagues, warning that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.