A press statement issued by the Press Secretary to the Governor, Abubakar Al-Sadique contained that each of the 20 local government areas in the State will have a Commissioner in the new Council in order to widen representation as well as serve as a source of generating brighter ideas of leading the state to greatness.
Abubakar Al-Sadique further explained that members of the new Executive Council, which is to be constituted very soon, will be expanded to twenty with technocrats and experienced people with diverse professional backgrounds.
It would be recalled that Governor Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar had on assumption of office in 2015, reduced the number of Ministries and Commissioners from the twenty-six the previous administration had to sixteen a development which generated a political imbalance in the state as some local government areas were not represented in the former council.
It is believed that the Governor is making these new changes in order to widen the representation of each local government area with full cabinet membership as against the practice in the past that allowed four of the local government areas only special advisory slots.
Political observers have continued to criticize the Governor for operating governance without a cabinet for almost a year now a development that had polarized the ruling APC in the state while members of the opposition used it to campaign against the administration dubbing it a ‘one-man’ administration.
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