The coalition explained that Ms Onochie’s citizenship will undermine national interest and potentially threaten the independence of INEC.
Speaking for the coalition during a press conference in Abuja yesterday, a board member of YIAGA Africa, Ezenwa Nwagwu noted that Onochies’s dual citizenship makes her fall short of the constitutional requirements for being appointed to that position as stated in Sections 156(1a)
President Muhammadu Buhari has been provided reasons to remove the name of his special assistant on social media, Lauretta Onochie from the list of Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Frontline human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, listed reasons the appointment of Onochie as INEC Commissioner should not stand.
Falana, in a statement he made available to reporters on Tuesday, pointed out that Onochie, as a card-carrying member of the ruling party, or any other registered political party, was not qualified for such a role.
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Most of President Buhari’s media aides limit themselves on social media to official government business but for others, Social media platforms has become a battleground, a turf for peddling propaganda and misinformation and a weapon to discredit and shoot down opponents’ reputations. President Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has committed all sorts of blunders on social media ranging from abusing commentators’ families to blatant lies. Just yesterday she referred to Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe as a Buffon after referring former President Obasanjo as an angry bird. The presidency according to insider sources is now very concerned.
A highly …
Abaribe, while contributing to a debate on the deteriorating security situation in the country on the floor of the Senate yesterday, called for Buhari ‘s resignation claiming his government had failed to proffer solutions to the high rate of insecurity across Nigeria.
The Presidency, had since dismissed Abaribe as an “armchair critic” describing the call as “foolish.”
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In her tweets on Thursday, Onochie, who
