GUSHEGU CONFIRMS MCE,
YENDI REJECTS NOMINEE
Assembly
members of the Gushegu Municipal Assembly in the Northern Region have
overwhelmingly endorsed Mr Robert Yaja Dawuni as the new Municipal Chief
Executive (MCE) for the area.
Mr Dawuni
until his nomination by the President for the position of MCE was the Presiding
Member (PM) for the Gushegu Municipal Assembly.
Yendi
rejects
In a
related development, Alhaji Ahmed Yussuf Abubakar who was retained by the President
for the position of MCE for Yendi, failed to secure the two-thirds majority of
the votes of members of the Yendi Municipal Assembly to begin his second term.
Alhaji
Abubakar had 21 of the assembly members voting in his favour while 20 voted
against him out of the total of 41 at the election held in Yendi to confirm him
as the MCE last Friday.
Confirmation
Mr
Dawuni, who is a teacher by profession, had all the 35 members of the assembly
voting to endorse him as the new MCE.
Out of
the 16 persons nominated by the President for the positions of Metropolitan,
Municipal and District Chief Executive (MMDCE) in the Northern Region, Mr
Dawuni is the first, and one of the new entrants to be confirmed since the
process to confirm the nominees began in the region last Friday, September
24,2021.
Pledge
Mr Dawuni
after his confirmation, thanked the President for nominating him to the
position to serve and the assembly members for the confidence reposed in him.
He
pledged to run an open administration where all views concerning the
development of the municipality would be welcomed and urged staff of the
assembly to cooperate and work hard to speed up the development of the area.
The
Member of Parliament (MP) for the Gushegu Constituency and Deputy Minister of
Transport, Mr Alhassan Tampuli, assured the elected MCE and the assembly
members of his continuous support towards the development of the area.
Yendi voting
With
regard to Yendi, the Northern Regional Director of the Electoral
Commission (EC), Mr Lucas Yiryil, who supervised the election, said Alhaji
Abubabar was able to secure only 51 per cent of the votes cast, falling short
of the required two-thirds and is thus qualified for a second round of voting.
He added
that the commission was expected to conduct a fresh election within 10 days for
the nominee to be confirmed.
The
Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Shani Alhassan Shaibu, who was present
during the exercise, appealed to the Assembly Members to bury their differences
and approve the nominee to continue with the government's development agenda
for the area.