The Joint Committee on INEC and Electoral Matters is expected to adopt a final document on the electoral reformation bill this weekend, for onward presentation to both chambers for consideration and approval. The National Assembly has assured that it would consider and pass the new electoral law upon resumption for plenary by February 9, 2021. […]
…Cuts N200m from INEC’s N143bn request …Insists fund budgeted for constituency projects stays The supremacy crisis between the executive and the National Assembly over the N9.1 trillion 2018 budget was rekindled on Thursday as the joint committee on INEC and Electoral Matters rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s request that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) N143 […]
…C’ttee rejects INEC’s 189bn request …Electoral umpire to defend budget today A glimmer of hope on the early resolution of the impasse over the passage by the National Assembly of President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the appropriation of funds for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct the 2019 polls emerged on Monday, following […]