PDP To Onochie: Stop This Denial, You Are A Member Of APC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has derided All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart and President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie, for denying her life in a desperation to be appointed as a national commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

 

This was contained in a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP.

 

The spokesman said Nigerians were amused to watch Lauretta Onochie, a nationally known APC front runner, as she spewed falsehood before the Senator Kabiru Gaya-led Senate Committee on INEC in denial of her membership of the APC.

 

He said with her lies, Lauretta Onochie, a die in the wool APC member, whose name appears as number 2 on the ward 4 register of the APC in Aniocha Local Government Area of Delta state, has further demonstrated her lack of integrity to be trusted with the position of a national commissioner in INEC.

 

“Lauretta Onochie in her escapade in the Senate, may have forgotten that the lawmakers and Nigerians in general are aware of her subsisting oath filed in a pending suit in court affirming her membership of the APC, which she further reinforced and adopted under cross examination in the same matter very recently.

 

“With such proclivity to desperate denials in the face of the truth, allowing Lauretta Onochie, anywhere near INEC, would pollute the commission as well as the conduct of elections by the commission.

 

“Now that the facts of Onochie’s partsanship has been further laid bare before the Senate, the PDP urges the Senator Gaya Committee on INEC to stand on the side of the constitution and the sanctity of our electoral process by outrightly rejecting the nomination of Lauretta Onochie as INEC Commissioner

 

 

 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)has also congratulated and celebrated the governor of Delta state, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa as he marks his 62nd birthday.

 

“Governor Okowa is an exceptionally meticulous administrator, visionary leader and very courageous democrat, who has continued to show an uncommon commitment towards the stability, development and progress of our nation and Delta state in particular.

 

“Over the years, as a medical doctor, a party man, a Senator of the Federal Republic and now as the governor of Delta state, Governor Okowa has distinguished himself as a patriot, who put the well-being and interest of other above self.

 

“Governor Okowa has also remained an exceptionally loyal partyman, in making innumerable sacrifices towards the stability and growth of our great party, particularly, his roles in upholding the ideals of the PDP and visions of our founding fathers by standing for a nation built on democratic tenets of justice, equity, rule of law and mutual respect.

 

“The PDP salutes Governor Okowa on this auspicious occasion and pray to God to grant him many more decades in good health for the service of humanity,”the spokesman said in a statement.