Onochie made her position known to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
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The MD and Board Chairman engaged in sordid exchanges during an investigative hearing by the Senate Committee.
Similarly, Onochie declared that the publication was without the authorisation nor consent of the NDDC Board.
NDDC Board Chairman, Lauretta Onochie, disclosed this on Thursday in Port Harcourt when she received Ogoni youths.
Onochie was an aide of President Mohammadu Buhari before she was nominated by the President for the NDDC job and subsequently confirmed by the senate.
The Board gave its nod at the end of its meeting after an exhaustive debate on the proposal tabled before it by the Chairman.
This was contained in a notice of consequences of disobedience to order of court dated December 23, 2022
The rowdiness at the screening of Onochie and others followed the concern raised by Senator Seriake Dickson.
The nomination was contained in a letter submitted to the Senate by President Buhari.
The PDP described the confirmation which was done “despite widespread outcry by Nigerians” as a “coup” against democracy and an open invitation to “serious political crisis that can derail our hard-earned democracy and lead to breakdown of law and order if not immediately reversed.”
Adams and a presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie, were not cleared by the Senate on Tuesday.
But the Senate has tried to disguise it otherwise. In response to growing criticisms that the National Assembly has become Buhari’s rubber stamp, the Senate has framed the rejection as a violation of the Federal Character principle, and more important, as proof of its legislative independence.
Situation Room Convener, Ene Obi, at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja, also enjoined them to act in the interest of Nigerians at all times.
The CNPP Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, said this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Bill was passed by the National Assembly on July 1 and is awaiting the assent of President Muhammadu Buhari.
In a statement titled, ‘Senate confirms five nominees as INEC Commissioners, rejects Lauretta Onochie’, by Ezrel Tabiowo, Special Assistant (Press) to President of the Senate, on Tuesday.
Onochie was pronounced rejected on Tuesday during plenary following the opposition of Nigerians to Buhari’s nominee
The Senate will debate the issue at plenary on Tuesday (today), scheduled to commence at 11am
Jega said appointing as INEC commissioner a person that has generated such level of controversy would raise suspicions and erode the confidence of the people in the electoral body.
The party leaders also assured the defecting senators from its party that they would be made to lose their seats in the Senate.