Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has denied being a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at a Senate committee screening.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Onochie denied the APC on Thursday as the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) screened Buhari’s nominees for appointment as INEC Commissioners.
“I am not a member of any political party,” Onochie, the INEC National Commissioner-nominee told the Senate Committee at the screening.
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TNG reports Onochie, however, admitted swearing an oath at an Abuja Federal High Court that she was a member of the APC.
She told the Senate Committee on INEC that she stopped being a member of the APC immediately after the 2019 general elections.
Earlier, with the uproar that has greeted the nomination of Onochie for the INEC job, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on INEC, Senator Kabir Gaya had said the confirmation of Onochie would be left for a voice vote on the floor of the Senate as a last resort.