Nigerian Senate Rejects Buhari’s ex-aide Onochie As INEC Commissioner

  The Nigerian Senate has rejected presidential media aide, Lauretta Onochie, as a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Platforms Africa reports that Onochie, a former aide to President Muhammadu Buhari, has been immersed in a serious controversy on her membership of the ruling Alla Progressives Congress (APC). The upper legislative chamber rejected her appointment after Kabiru Gaya, chairman of the INEC committee, presented a report in plenary. She was nominated for the job by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2020.   READ ALSO: House, DPR on…

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