Bayly apologises to Mahuta for stumbling over name Andrew Bayly. (Photo / NZ Herald) Bayly apologises to Mahuta for stumbling over name Tue, 13 Jul 2021, 2:00PM National MP Andrew Bayly has apologised to Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta for getting her name wrong at the National Party's Northern Regional Conference earlier this year. Bayly insists he wasn't trying to mock Mahuta, but simply to cover for the fact that he stumbled over her name by accident during the conference. NZ Herald columnist Simon Wilson reported that Bayly, while running a session on infrastructure referred to Mahuta as "Nanaia, manna, nan, um, nanny, manny, man, oh dear, whatever".