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The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Muhammad, has forwarded the names of 24 commissioner nominees to the House of Assembly for screening and confirmation, Speaker of the house, Abubakar Y. Suleiman, who disclosed this on Monday during plenary, said the house received a message from the governor requesting it to screen and confirm nominees for appointment as commissioners and members of the State Executive Council (SEC) in line with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution.

The Majority Leader of the house, Saleh Hodi Jibir, read out the nominees as follows: Maiwada Bello and Ibrahim Gambo (Alkaleri); Mahmoud Babamaji Abubakar and Danlami Ahmed Kawule (Bauchi); Tsammani Lydia Haruna (Bogoro); Ahmed Sarki Jalam (Dambam); Yakubu Ibrahim Hamza (Darazo); Usman Santuraki (Dass) and Abdul Hassan Gamawa and Muhammad Salees (Gamawa). Others are Dr Yakubu Adamu (Giade); Usman Abdulkadir Moddibo (Jama’are); Hajara Jibrin Gidado (Itas/Gadau); Farouk Mustapha (Katagum); Hajara Yakubu Wanka (Kirfi); Aminu Hammayo (Misau); Hassan El-Yakub (Ningi); Muhammad Hamisu Shira (Shira); Simon Madugu Yalams and Abubakar Abdulhamid Bununu (Tafawa Balewa); Jamila Muhammad Dahiru and Adamu Umar Sambo (Toro) and Abdulrazak Nuhu Zaki and Amina Muhammad Katagum (Warji).

The house resolved to screen the nominees on August 2, 3 and 4, 2023.

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The National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Asaba, Delta State, has nullified the election of Ngozi Okolie of the Labour Party (LP) as the member representing Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency and declared Ndudi Elumelu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winner. Daily Trust reports that Okolie was declared the winner of the February 25, 2023, federal legislative election by INEC with 53,879 votes to defeat his closet rival and then incumbent representative, Hon Elumelu of the PDP who polled 33,456 votes, and Tony Nwaka of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who scored 11,712 votes.

The Justice A. Z. Mussa-led three-man tribunal held that Okolie was not duly sponsored by the LP as he was not a member of the party as of May 28, 2022, when the primary was purportedly conducted and that he did not resign from public office to contest the election. In a 107-page judgment that lasted over five hours, the tribunal disqualified Okolie and declared the runner-up, Elumelu, as winner.

 

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