On Tuesday, 13th July 2021, Onochie, who appeared before the Senate Committee on INEC, was eventually rejected by the upper legislative chamber.
Before she was rejected by the Senate on Wednesday, Lauretta Onochie told its committee on INEC that she was a private person and rarely talked.
This is besides her earlier statement where she said she quit politics in 2019 and that she is no longer partisan, a claim which turned out to be false.
All of these ‘declarations’ that Ms. Onochie made were in response to petitions written against her. The Senate panel had presented the petitions and asked her to respond to them during the screening exercise.
Ms Onochie, the personal assistant to the president on New Media, was being screened for her appointment as a national commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission – having been appointed over eight months ago by President Muhammadu Buhari to represent Delta State, where she hails from.
Nigerians had asked the president to withdraw her nomination on grounds that she is partisan and it would be unconstitutional for her to be appointed into such an office.
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Although her nomination was rejected by the Senate, Ms. Onochie made some brow-raising comments during her screening exercise, most of which are contained in the panel’s report obtained by Anaedoonline.ng.
The report
The committee, in its report, said several petitions against Ms. Onochie were submitted on grounds of violation of federal character principle, partisanship, being a card-carrying member of the APC, and using her social media accounts fake news campaign strategies – all of which she was asked to respond to.
In her defense, Ms. Onochie debunked the claims against her.
According to the report, while she admitted to being a one-time registered and card-carrying member of the APC and member of the “Buhari Support Organisation”,
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she said she is presently neither a registered nor card-carrying member of the party since she did not register as an APC Member during the last APC re-validation exercise.
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