Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have expressed their dissatisfaction over the commissioner nominees list transmitted to the House last Friday by the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

The lawmakers, who spoke during plenary on Thursday, said the list did not reflect their expectations and those of their constituencies.

The Clerk of the Assembly, Mr. Olalekan Onafeko, who read the letter of the governor accompanying the list of nominees, read out the names of the 39 nominees as sent by the governor to the House.

Reacting to the governor’s letter, the lawmakers lamented the exclusion of some local governments and constituencies from the list.

While some urged the governor to take another look at the list, others urged that the nominees’ local government areas should be attached to the list.

Raising a ‘Matter of Urgent Public Importance’, the lawmaker representing Ikorodu II constituency, Aro Abiodun, told his colleagues that despite contributing to the success of the All Progressives Congress in the last election, Ikorodu got one slot in the list.

The Deputy Majority Leader of the House, Ademola Kasunmu, lamented the absence of any nominee from Ikeja.

His colleague, Nureni Akinsanya from Mushin, noted that the list did not come with the local government areas of the nominees. He also pointed out that the APC had technocrats who were not considered in the nomination.

His position was supported by Kehinde Joseph (Alimosho II), who noted that loyalists and party members deserved to be nominated as much as technocrats.

Joesph added that those who sacrificed their ambitions for the party or lost during the last election could also be nominated as commissioners and special advisers as they could still serve the people in other capacities.