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Senate screens Lauretta Onochie, others for INEC job

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Lauretta Onochie and other nominees for appointment as National Commissioners of the electoral body are at the National assembly to face screening  by senate committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Onochie, Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, is already in the Senate Chambers waiting to be screened.

President Muhammadu Buhari had nominated Onochie for the job.

Leaders of political parties, civil society organisations and lawmakers, among others, are against her nomination as they alleged that her partisanship does not qualify her for the position.

it is also  not clear what the actions the three senators from Delta state, her home state would be neither is anyone so sure if the senate would listen to the voices against her nomination. 

But, if the past actions of the senate is anything to go by, it is then certain that she will be cleared as the legislators have always tow the line of the president. 

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