2027 election: ‘We’ve already received over N500b of budget allocation’ – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, Mohammed Haruna, has announced that the committee has received implicit N500 billion, which accounts for much than 50 percent of the fund allocated for the 2027 wide elections.

During an interrogation with Arise News on Friday regarding predetermination readiness and funding, Haruna expressed that the disbursement of these funds is simply a affirmative development. 

However, helium besides highlighted INEC’s concerns regarding outstanding debts from erstwhile elections and the timely merchandise of the remaining funds indispensable to afloat instrumentality their plans.

He said, “Currently, we person received much than fractional of the allocated funds, astir N500 cardinal oregon somewhat more. This represents implicit 50% of the full amount.

“Naturally, determination are inactive immoderate issues to address. We person debts from the past wide predetermination owed to insufficient backing astatine that time. 

“We beryllium contractors astir six billion, and from the statutory allocation of implicit 140 cardinal for that year, we inactive person an outstanding magnitude of implicit 20 billion. I judge it was conscionable this period that the archetypal 500 cardinal ...