BREAKING: Senate begins screening, confirmation of Lauretta Onochie, others as INEC Commissioners

THE Senate has begun the screening and subsequent confirmation of the Special Assistant, Social Media to President Muhammadu Buhari,  Lauretta Onochie as a National Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday forwarded the name of Onochie  and five others as Federal Commissioners to the Senator Kabiru Gaya, All Progressives Congress, APC, Kano South led Senate Committee on INEC.

Lawan gave the Committee two weeks to carry out legislative action on the list and report back at Plenary.

The…