Osun Assembly on Tuesday, July 18, 2023 confirmed all the 25 nominees of Gov. Ademola Adeleke as commissioners, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Mr Adewale Egbedun, Speaker of the assembly, during plenary session, confirmed all the nominees after the last 12 nominee appeared before the house for screening. NAN recalls that 13 of the 25 nominees appeared before the house on Monday for screening.
Egbedun said in line with the provisions of Section 192 (2) of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 (amended), the assembly confirmed all the nominees as commissioners of the state.
He said: “Consequently, the governor can go ahead with the formal swearing-in of the commissioners’ designates.”
The speaker, thereafter, ordered the Clerk of the house, Mr Simeon Amusan, to invite the Permanent Secretary in the Osun Ministry of Works to appear before it on Monday “in connection with road works in the state’’.
Similarly, Egbedun ordered the Managing Director/CEO of Peculiar Concerns Ltd., Olarenwaju Adeleke, to reappear alongside the permanent secretary to furnish the assembly with status of the ongoing road construction/ re-construction works being handled by his company