 Meantime, the People's Democratic Party has cautioned Senate President Ahmad Lawan against aid in the confirmation of Loretta Onoche as a National Commissioner and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. President Mohamed Buhari had in October 2020 forwarded Onoche's and the names of two other nominees to the Senate for confirmation as INEC commissioners. The Senate had kept the President's nomination in abeyance, apparently following public outcry over Onoche's alleged membership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, AAPC. However, the Senate referred Onoche and the two other nominees to the Senate Committee on INEC for screening and possible recommendation for confirmation last week. But at the media briefing in Abu Jhaber, the spokesman for the PDP, Kola Olaq Bordio, the party charged Lawan to respect Nigerians by rejecting Onoche's nomination. Olaq Bordio said Lawan would be ridiculing himself and his exalted office if he failed to reject the nomination, threatening legal action if Onoche is eventually confirmed.