{"id":83614,"date":"2021-07-13T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83614"},"modified":"2021-07-13T16:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T15:22:25","slug":"inec-onochies-rejection-at-senate-a-victory-for-nigerians-democracy-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/inec-onochies-rejection-at-senate-a-victory-for-nigerians-democracy-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC: Onochie\u2019s Rejection At Senate a Victory For Nigerians, Democracy- PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Senate\u2019s rejection of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s nomination of his aide and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Lauretta Onochie, as a national commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as the triumph of the Nigerian people over the barefaced attempt by the Buhari led-APC administration to corrupt and hijack the commission ahead of 2023 elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The PDP asserts that the rejection of Lauretta Onochie by Nigerians has saved the nation from very serious crisis as well as salvaged INEC and the entire Nigerian electoral process from a ruinous pollution that would have led to the collapse of our democratic order.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement by theNational Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party asserts that Onochie\u2019s vexatious nomination, in total affront to paragraph 14 of the 3rd schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), was a very dangerous machination by the Buhari-led APC Presidency against our electoral process, in the attempt to subvert the will of the people in the 2023 elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The APC, in spite of its shenanigans, is aware that it will have difficulties winning election at any level in a free, fair and 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