INEC SEEKS ALTERNATIVE SOURCE TO FUND 2019 ELECTIONS

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakub, has said that vote-buying in the election by agents of political parties in the country was scary.

Mahmoud said that the commission may be forced to consider alternative sources of funding for the 2019 elections if the National Assembly failed to consider to pass the supplementary budget of N242 billion which was sent to the National Assembly before they proceeded on annual vacation, Speaking at the bi-annual retreat of the State House Corps hosted by Lagos State government in Epe Resorts, yesterday, the INEC boss assured that next year’s elections will be the best ever in the country.

While making reference to the ongoing amendment of the Electoral Act pending in the National Assembly, he said that any law that was not passed six months before the election was null and void.