The Independent National Electoral Commission is requesting for the sum of fifty billion naira for its 2023 budget, an increment of N10 billion to 2022 budget which was N40 billion.
INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu started this in a document submitted during the commission’s budget defense session in the Senate.
In the budget document, the sum of N2.6 billion is earmarked for off season elections in Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states expected to hold on November 11, 2023.
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The National Assembly had already approved N305 billion for the conduct of the 2023 general elections, as Professor Mahmood Yakubu had in December, 2021 told the National Assembly that it would require the said amount as projected expenditure for the 2023 elections.
But defending the 2023 Budget estimates on Thursday before the Senator Kabiru Gaya, APC, Kano South led Senate Committee on INEC, the INEC boss said that the Electoral body has budgeted another N50 billion for its annual budget in 2023, an increment of N10 billion compared to 2022 budget which was N40 billion as approved by the National Assembly.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on INEC, Kabiru Gaya said the committee will properly oversees the electoral body to ensure it is prepared for the upcoming elections.
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