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Chuks Okocha A coalition of civil society organisations (CSOs) has instituted a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over the nomination of Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, as Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Onochie was nominated as an INEC’s commissioner by President Muhammadu Buhari since October 2020, but the Senate President, Mr. Ahmad Lawan, read the presidential letter of nomination only last month. The CSOs, in the suit that was filed before the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, with suit FHC/ABJ/CS/604/2021, were seeking the order of court to determine whether the president “can nominate a card-carrying member or members of his political party or any other political party in Nigeria, as a national commissioner or resident electoral commissioner for the independent national electoral commission”, contrary to Sections 14 (2a), 14 (3), 14 (3b), 14 (4) and Section 154 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic o

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