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    Again, Lagos Assembly Rejects Three Commisioner-Nominees, Confirms Omotoso, Abayomi, Others

    By Abimbola DanielsSeptember 7, 2023
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    THE Lagos State House of Assembly has, again, rejected three out of the 18 commissioner-nominees presented to the House on Monday by the State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

    News Point Nigeria reports that, the Clerk of the House, Mr Olalekan Onafeko, had on Monday conveyed the request of the governor to the House through a letter he read on the floor of the House during plenary session.

    Consequent to this, Speaker Obasa constituted a 12-member committee led by the Chief Whip of the House, Hon. Fatai Mojeed to screen the nominees, the report of which was presented report to the House during the plenary session on Thursday.

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    Addressing the House after the receipt of the report of the committee, Obasa inquired, “After the sitting of the ad-hoc committee, if there is any lawmaker that needs clarification or is aggrieved about this report such person should come out to state his case. We will continue with the confirmation of the nominees, In line with the constitution, I hereby confirm the nominee of the name of the nominees.”

    The Speaker thereafter led the House in a voice vote to confirm the nominees during which three nominees were rejected while 15 confirmed.

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    The rejected nominees include Engr Olalere Odusote, Samuel Egube and Tolani Sule Akibu.

    Meanwhile, the lawmakers confirmed Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, former Commissioner for Information and Strategy; Prof Akin Abayomi, former Commissioner for Health; Sola Giwa and 13 others out of the 18 fresh nominees presented to the house by Sanwo-Olu.

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    Egube and Odusote were not confirmed for second term during the confirmation of the second list of the 18 nominees presented to by Governor Sanwo-Olu to the assembly.

    A new nominee, Tolani Akibu was also rejected by the House.

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    Recall that Lagos State House of Assembly, had rejected 17 of the 39 cabinet nominees sent recently by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for screening and approval, while 22 were confirmed.

    Reports reaching News Point Nigeria has it that the third of the rejected nominees, Tolani Akibu, was later cleared.

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