Senate committee leader on Power and steel, Eyinnaya Abaribe, Thursday, said the call by Presidency for Nigeria’s Senate to reconvene was “unnecessary” and a bid to blame the Senate. “INEC sent its own budget for the election in January to the presidency. INEC on Wednesday presented the budget to the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters and Political Parties Matters. The committee, however, expressed concern over alleged discrepancies in the budget figures presented by President Muhammadu Buhari and chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu. While the INEC chairman presented a budget of N189,207,544,893.13 for the polls, Buhari had on July 17, 2018, tabled N143,512,529,455.00.

Source: The Guardian August 16, 2018 15:22 UTC