Lauretta Onochie Beyond all reasonable doubt, Lauretta Onochie, senior special assistant (New Media) to President Muhammadu Buhari since October 2016 should never have been nominated at all as a commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). It is just as well that the Senate has rejected Onochie’s nomination. The Constitution, in the Third Schedule, Part1 (F) (14(1) (b) requires a member of the commission to “be non-partisan and a person of unquestionable integrity.” This is a weighty consideration incompatible with desperation, which is never in the character of an integrated person. Onochie’s candidacy was simply a misnomination. Onochie, in her role as an officer in the office of the President from where the best social examples should flow, has evidentially proven herself to be a bit too controversial. In December 2016 when she was barely two months in her new job, she released on the social media a statement against a state governor that was noteworthy for its crudity of intent, of content and of language. Subsequently, she takes on, in more or less similar irreverent fashion, just about anyone, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who expresses opinion critical of her principal or the government they represent. She has been dragged to court by Senator Peter Nwaoboshi who accuses her of defaming him in a June 8, 2020 tweet.