The Joint Committee of the National
Assembly on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has suspended
deliberations on the N189 billion submitted to it by the Commission for the
conduct of the 2019 elections, indefinitely.
The Committee Chairman, Suleiman
Nazif, announced the decision at the end of the panel’s meeting on Friday.
While providing reasons for the
suspension, he, however, assured that members of the committee would do the
needful to ensure that the citizens emerged victorious at the end of the day.
He said, “Honourable minister,
honourable chairman (of INEC) and presidential liaison, I want to thank you
very much for your time.
“We have the prerogative as a
committee to look into all the details having got all the clarifications we
require. We will now sit as a committee at the end of the day on which one to
use. We are not playing politics here.
‘‘This is not where we play
politics. On this note, this meeting is adjourned sine die (indefinitely).
“The issue in contention is, we
have a letter from Mr. President requesting supplementary budget and what we
have is a budget of N143, 512, 529.00, that is what we have in the President’s
letter.
“But at the same time, there is
another N45bn. When you put the N143bn and the N45.6bn, it gives us the N189bn,
there is no confusion in it.
“INEC did the right thing, the
President sent his letter. It is the sources of funding that became a problem
that is why we invited the Minister of Budget and National Planning so that he
can clarify.”
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