Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly are unhappy with governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the exclusion of party members from his commissioner-nominee list sent to them for screening and confirmation. The members are of the opinion that some of the party members who worked assiduously for his return for a second term when it looked like the odds were against him, or of the opinion that these party members needed to be rewarded with some slots in the commissioner list.
The lawmakers lamented the exclusion of some local government areas and constituencies from the list. The governor had on July 28 sent 39 names to the state lawmakers, but they fumed over the fact that government loyalists and All Progressives Congress, APC members were not nominated as much as the technocrats named in the list. They argued that those who sacrificed their ambitions for the party or lost during the last elections should also have been nominated as commissioners and special advisers, as they could still serve the people in other capacities. This may perhaps explain why the screening and confirmation is taking a long time to conclude, in the hope that the governor will see reasons with them and drop some acclaimed technocrats from the list
for party members. Although the speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, agreed with his colleagues on the exclusion, he however, implored the members to see reasons with the governor over his choice of commissioners as the law gives room for the governor to decide who he wants to choose.
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