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INEC Gives Breakdown of 2019 💼Budget, Speaks on Bayelsa, Kogi Guber Elections

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has given a breakdown of the Commission’s 2019 budget proposal of N45.4 billion.

The electoral body also disclosed that it will release the timetable and schedule of activities for the governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States before the end of next week.

The elections are billed to hold at separate dates later this year.

INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, stated this when he led other members of the Commission to defend the Commission’s 2019 budget proposal before a joint session of the Senate Committee on INEC and House Committee on Electoral matters.

Yakubu, while breaking down the Commission’s 2019 budget proposal of N45.4 billion, said, “This year we are going to conduct two end of tenure elections into the offices of the governors in Kogi and Bayelsa States.

“This year towards the end of the year we are going to conduct governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsea.

“Let me seize this opportunity here to say before the end of this week INEC will issue a timetable and schedule of activities for the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states.”

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