Tag: Lauretta Onochie

INEC job: Evidence emerges showing Lauretta Onochie lied to Senate panel

Aminu Imam

Despite denying allegiance to the All Progressives Congress, (APC), an old tweet has now emerged indicating that the Personal Assistant on Social Media to the President, Lauretta Onochie, supported and promoted the party in 2020, contrary to her claim that she had quit partisan politics in 2019. Recall that  Ms. Onochie, on Thursday, appeared before the Senate Committee on INEC, which screened her for the position of national commissioner for the electoral umpire. She was nominated for the position by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2020. If confirmed, she will…

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INEC: APC, PDP Senators move to stop Onochies nomination

Aminu Imam

Some senators from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appear bent on their opposition to the nomination of the Presidents Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), it was reported. According to the report, some of the senators are understood to have joined forces to stop the nomination of Onochie, and have allegedly received video clips of interviews granted by Onochie from some interest groups to back up their opposition to her nomination. Lobbyists…

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70 CSOs reject Buharis media aide, Lauretta Onochies appointment as INEC Commissioner

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, on Tuesday, kicked against the nomination of President Muhammadu Buharis Senior Special Assistant on Social Media, Ms Lauretta Onochie, as National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, representing the South-South. The Situation Room which is a coalition of 70 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the country, maintained that the 1999 Constitution, as amended, forbade the appointment of a partisan politician as a member of INEC. Stressing that Ms Onochie is a known partisan supporter of President Buhari and his ruling party, the…

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