The duo’s appointments were approved by the governor in separate letters to them and signed by the state Head of Service, Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola.

The two appointments, according to the HoS, take immediate effect.

Before his reappointment, Gawat served as Sanwo-Olu’s Senior Special Assistant on New Media during the governor’s first term in office.

Ajetunmobi had also served during the governor’s first tenure as the Special Assistant on Media (Print).

Senior special assistant to the governor on new media, Jubril Gawat confirmed the development on Twitter and also revealed that the Lagos State Governor made this known in a bill submitted to the state house of assembly on Tuesday November 10.

Gawat tweeted “Governor of Lagos State, Mr @jidesanwoolu has announced his intention, through an executive bill, to repeal the public office holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension & other entitlements to former governors and their deputies”

According to a tweet on Monday, by Jubril Gawat, Senior Special Assistant on New Media to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, he wrote that the full enforcement of the ban would commence on February 1, 2020.

Some of the Local Governments and Local Council Development Centres affected are Apapa, Apapa Iganmu, Lagos Mainland, Yaba, Surulere, Itire Ikate, Coker Aguda, Eti-Osa, Lagos Island, Ikeja, Onigbongo, Ojodu, Ikoyi-Obalende, Iru Ikoyi-Obalande, and Lagos Island East.

Details soon.