The Delta State chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has stated that the media aide to president Mohammed Buhari, Lauretta Onochie, is not a bonafide member of the party.
This was contained in a communique issued on Sunday and signed by Cyprian Ashibuogu, Clement Ozegbe, Nkem Osu and Onyeisi Nwokolobia, the party admonished the Senate to ignore protests and petitions against the nomination of Onochie.
“She is a technocrat and has been part of us and she is not a card-carrying member of our party.”
Recall that President Mohammed Buhari had nominated the controversial image maker for the post of Commission for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). However, her nomination has been met with protest from the opposition party members who have accused her of being a partisan politician thus disqualifying her from the post.
She, however disclosed during her screening at the senate that she stopped being a party member in 2019.
The APC also described as ‘false’, a petition from a senatorial district in Delta State which has vehemently opposed her nomination because she is ‘Anioma daughter’.