Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode will on Monday,
October 19, swear in 23 Commissioners and 14 Special Advisers, who will
constitute the State Executive Council.
According to a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary,
Mr. Habib Aruna, the ceremony will hold at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa
Secretariat by 10am.
According to him, “The House of Assembly has just officially
informed His Excellency that they have completed the screening and confirmation
of all the 23 Commissioner Designates and 14 Special Adviser Designates which
he had sent to the House on September 21. So what is left is for him to conduct
the swearing in ceremony so as to enable them resume the task of governance”.
It would be recalled that Governor Ambode had named six former
cabinet members from the Babatunde Raji Fashola administration including former
commissioner for Agriculture, Gbolahan Lawal, former Commissioner for Health,
Dr. Jide Idris, former Special Adviser, Central Business District, Folarin Coker,
former Special Adviser Commerce and Industry, Seye Oladejo, former Special
Adviser Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ganiyu Johnson and former Special
Adviser Rural Development, Babatunde Hunpe.
He also named a relatively young cabinet with the likes of Mrs.
Yetunde Onabolu, Fela Bank-Olemoh, Akinyemi Ashade, a partner in KPMG, former
Managing Director, National Mirror, Steve Ayorinde, Alhaja Uzamat
Akinbile-Yusuf, a pharmacist, Kehinde Joseph and Prof. Ademola Abass, a
Professor of Law, whose ages range between 39 and 47 years.