A committee of the Lagos State House of Assembly that started meeting over the weekend has already reviewed 20 of the 39 cabinet nominees that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu recently forwarded to the assembly.
By Wednesday, when the process is expected to be completed, all of the cabinet nominees would have been screened. This will allow the governor to allocate portfolios to them.
Recall that the Governor asked the House of Assembly to approve 39 nominees for Commissioners and Special Advisers on July 28, 2023.
Mrs. Adetoke Benson-Awoyinka, a former special adviser to Governor Sanwo-Olu on housing, and Mrs. Bola Olumegbon Lawal, a former executive secretary of Yaba Local Council Development Area, LCDA, were questioned by the committee on Monday.
Yakoob Alebiosu, Idris Aregbe, Abdul-Kabir Ogungbo, Dr. Oreoluwa Finnih-Awokoya, Engineer Abiola Olowu, Dr. Adekunle Olayinka, Engineer Aramide Adeyoye, and others were also screened.
Earlier on Sunday, the committee led by Mojeed Fatai, Chief Whip of the House, screened Mobolaji Abubakre Ogunlende, Dr. Olamide Babatunde, Lawal Pedro, and Afolabi Waheed Ayantayo, immediate past Special Adviser to the Governor on Parastatals Monitoring.
Others included: Mr. Jamiu Alli-Balogun, Olugbenga Olaniyi, Ogunwuyi Ekundayo, Ibrahim Layode, immediate past lawmaker of the State from Badagry, Adetokunbo Wahab and Olakunle Rotimi-Akodu.
The Speaker of the House, Mudashiru Obasa, had recently constituted the 12-man ad-hoc committee for the exercise.
The committee is to make a report to the House when it reconvenes.
At the commencement of the screening, Fatai had noted that the task before the lawmakers was in line with a provision of the 1999 Constitution.
More Stories
Bandits abduct former NLC President in Kaduna
Learn from Kenya, Obi urges Tinubu, other political leaders
CJN Ariwoola to swear-in his daughter-in-law, 11 others as High Court judges, Wednesday