Barely four days to the July 27 deadline, only three elected governors from northern Nigeria have appointed their commissioners.
The other 14 governors did not send the list of their commissioners to the Houses of Assembly 55 days after taking power.
The constitution provides that state governors have until July 27 to send the list to their respective Houses of Assembly for confirmation which is equivalent to 60 days after taking oaths.
Only three state governors [Jigawa, Kano and Taraba] in the north have so far inaugurated their commissioners. Now, the governors have only three working days to send the lists.
The March 18 governorship elections were held in 18 northern states, (except Kogi State) with seven re-elected governors and 11 first-timers.
The re-elected governors are Babagana Zulum (Borno); Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe); Bala Mohammed (Bauchi); AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq (Kwara); Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa); Ahmadu Fintiri (Adamawa), and Mai Mala Buni (Yobe).
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Benue, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states are yet to appoint their commissioners.
However, Fintiri of Adamawa State appointed one commissioner after defeating Aishatu Dahiru Binani.
The Southern states that are yet to inaugurate commissioners are Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Enugu, Akwa Ibom and Cross River states.
But Abia, Delta, Rivers and Ebonyi States had inaugurated their cabinets.
Basically, out of the 28 states across the federation where the governorship election was held, 21 governors have no cabinets.
