Buni Submitted Blank Commissioner Nominees List? Yobe Assembly Speaker Reacts

• The Yobe state Assembly speaker, Honourable Buba Chiroma-Mashio, has cleared the air regarding the commissioner-nominee list submitted by Governor Mai Mala Buni
• In a recent interview, he noted that Governor Buni did not submit anything related to a blank list of commissioner nominees to beat the deadline
• Honourable Mashio maintained the Yobe Assembly received the first batch of the list on Thursday, July 27

Yobe state, Damaturu - The long-awaited commissioner nominees’ list forwarded by Governor Mai Mala Buni to the state assembly was finally unveiled by the speaker, Honourable Buba Chiroma-Mashio.

Daily Trust checks reveal that the first batch of the list, which was purportedly released on Thursday, July 27, remained unveiled until last Tuesday, August 8, when a second batch was brought.

The development, which had fuelled suspicions that the first batch was a blank list meant to beat the constitutionally required 60 days deadline, has, however, been addressed.

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Buni and leaders of the House of Assembly said four names were pencilled in the first list.

A member of the state assembly confirmed that the letter sent to them earlier through the secretary to the state government contained no names.

But the speaker, Mashio, in an interview, insisted that there was nothing like a blank list to beat the deadline, adding that the house received the first batch of the list on July 27.

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The northern group berated the Nigerian Senate for withholding the confirmation of El-Rufai, as a minister, describing it as procedurally wrong and politically defective.

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Police arrest couple in Yobe

In another report, a couple, 21-year-old Abdullahi Ibrahim and 20-year-old Khadija Ali, have been arrested by the police for disguising themselves as new converts to steal a motorcycle belonging to a Muslim cleric in Fika Local Government Area of Yobe State.

The state police spokesman, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this in a statement in Damaturu.

Abdulkarim explained that on June 4, the couple approached the cleric with the claim that they wanted to convert to Islam.

Source: Legit.ng