Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has carried out a minor cabinet reshuffle, with the appointment of three new members.
A statement by Gboyega Akosile, the governor’s media aide, listed the eight cabinet portfolios affected by the redeployment to include ministries of local government, special duties, wealth creation and employment, tourism, arts and culture, home affairs, as well as waterfront infrastructure. Others are the Central Business District (CBD) and urban development.
According to Akosile, Sanwo-Olu has moved three commissioners around, while two special advisers have been assigned new roles as commissioners.
The affected commissioners and their new portfolios are: Wale Ahmed, commissioner for special duties, who has now been moved to local government and community affairs; Yetunde Arobieke, formerly commissioner for local government and community affairs has been moved to the ministry of wealth creation and employment.
Also, Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf has been moved from the ministry of home affairs to the ministry of tourism, arts and culture as commissioner.
Two former special advisers, Anofiu Elegushi and Kabiru Ahmed, are now assigned to the ministries of home affairs and waterfront infrastructure as commissioners respectively.
The governor, according to Akosile, also announced portfolios of the new cabinet members. They are Tayo Bamgbose-Martins, commissioner-designate (special duties), Oyerinde Olugbenga Olanrewaju, special adviser-designate (CBD) and Ayuba Ganiu Adele, special adviser-designate (urban development).
Governor Sanwo-Olu thanked members of the Lagos State House of Assembly for believing in the executive and carrying out the ratification of the cabinet nominees in a manner devoid of mere political considerations other than the interests of the electorate, assuring that his action is in line with his administration’s vision of delivering good governance to the residents of Lagos.
The new appointments and redeployments, Sanwo-Olu said, were intended to create a new energy and vivacity for the continued delivery of values to the government of Lagos and provision of service to millions of Lagosians.
