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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The Lagos State House of Assembly has cleared 15 out of the 18 new commissioner-nominees recommended for screening and confirmation by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Sanwo-Olu had on Monday sent a second list containing tnames of 18 nominees to the assembly for confirmation.
Speaker of the assembly, Rt Hon Mudashiru Obasa,had charged the committee that handled the first list to take responsibility for reviewing the new nominees.
He gave the committee a September 9 deadline to report back to the house.
On August 23, the assembly had declined to confirm 17 nominees on the first list of 39 sent by the governor.
At Thursday’s plenary, the assembly declined to confirm three of the nominees, including Samuel Egube, the immediate past Commissioner of Economic Planning and Budget, Olalere Odusote and Tola Sule-Akibu.
Egube was one of the 17 nominees, including former Commissioner of Information ams Strategy, Gbenga Omotosho and ex-Commissioner of Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, on the first list who were not confirmed by the assembly.
The Speaker directed the clerk to send the list of the confirmed nominees to the governor.
See list of confirmed nominees below:
NUMBER | CONFIRMED COMMISSIONER-NOMINEES |
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1 | Afolabi Abiodun Tajudeen |
2 | Oluwaseun Oriyomi Osiyemi |
3 | Akinola Emmanuel Abayomi |
4 | Oluwarotimi Omotola Wahab |
5 | Folashade Kaosarat Ambrose-Medem |
6 | Akinyeri Bankole Ajigbotafe |
7 | Bolaji Cecilia Dada |
8 | Barakat Akande Bakare |
9 | Gbenga Omotosho |
10 | Mosopefolu George |
11 | Yekini Nurudeen Agbaje |
12 | Olumide Oluyinka |
13 | Abayomi Samson Oluyomi |
14 | Iyebode Oyeyemi Ayoola |
15 | Sola Sakurudeen Giwa |