Nigerians on Tuesday reacted angrily to the nomination of Lauretta Onochie, one of the media aides of President Muhammadu Buhari as a national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The opposition senators in a statement made available in Abuja and signed by their leader asked Buhari to withdraw Onochie’s nomination.
They noted that Buhari, by nominating Onochie, “has willfully gone against the constitution that he swore to uphold.”
Part of the statement read, “Item F, paragraph 14 of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) forbids a card-carrying member of a political party to be a member of INEC.
“The Minority Caucus of the Senate is against this nomination and call on Mr President to withdraw it.”
