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Advertisement Onochie was nominated as an INEC commissioner by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2020. Eight months after her nomination, Ahmad Lawan, senate president, asked the committee on INEC to commence the screening process. In a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/604/2021, filed before a federal high court in Abuja on Tuesday, the CSOs are asking the 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 of Nigeria 1999 (as amended in 2011).

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