INEC Submits Adjusted 2019 Election Budget To National Assembly

INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday presented a reexamined 2019 race spending plan to the National Assembly for thought and endorsement. 

This takes after the mandate of the National Assembly joint board of trustees on constituent issues that the discretionary body ought to improve its 2019 race spending plan in view of the N143.5 billion the panel received for thought. 

The constituent body had before the reception of the N143bn asked for the endorsement of N189 billion for the decisions. 

President Muhammadu Buhari had asked for the National Assembly to favor through a virement the aggregate of N143.5 billion for the direct of the 2019 decisions. 

The President included that the adjust of N45.6billion out of an aggregate of N189 billion he exhibited will be embedded and affirmed in the 2019 national spending plan for INEC. 

After around about fourteen days of thought of solicitations, the joint advisory group received the N143billion as looked for by President Buhari with the clarification that the presidential letter was unequivocal that the N45.6billion contrast was to be accommodated in the 2019 spending plan. 

Executive of the joint board of trustees, Senator Suleiman Nazif who declared the consistence of INEC to its order, told newsmen that the constituent body had sent an evaluated spending plan to the council inside the ambit of N143bn as coordinated. 

Nazif likewise said that a sub-advisory group was set up to investigate the subtle elements of the new spending plan presented by INEC. 

The sub council, he stated, is relied upon to finish its task Wednesday and present it's report for thought by 4pm same day.