Press Statement – The National Assembly Should Immediately Pass The Entire Budget For The 2019 General Elections Upon Resumption
PRESS STATEMENT – THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY PASS THE ENTIRE BUDGET FOR THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS UPON RESUMPTION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9th October 2018
It would be recalled that on the 11th July 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari made a request for Virement and Supplementary budget to the National Assembly to fund the 2019 General Elections. Today it has been three months less two days since that letter was written and no budget for INEC has been conclusively approved for the 2019 Elections. Election Monitor has written three press statements concerning the delayed INEC budget (16th and 30th August as well as 10th September 2018). It is clear that with 129 days to the first set of elections the situation of funding the 2019 General Elections has assumed near crisis levels and every well-meaning Nigerian should be genuinely concerned.
On the 13th September 2018 and some other civil society organizations (CSOs) under the aegis Movement for Transparent Elections embarked on a peaceful protest march to the National Assembly to demand for the immediate passage of the 2019 General Elections budget.
The National Assembly is expected to resume from its annual recess today (Tuesday 9th October 2018) after postponing its resumption from the 25th September 2018.
Election Monitor is demanding that the National Assembly pass the 2019 General Elections budget immediately it reconvenes.
It is important for the NASS to understand that any attempt to further delay the passage of the INEC budget for whatever reason would be interpreted as a clear attempt to frustrate the effective conduct of the 2019 General Elections.
Election Monitor expects that the National Assembly would pass the entire 2019 General Elections budget on or before the 10th October 2018. NASS members are reminded that they are representatives of the people and were elected primarily to uphold the interest of Nigeria.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
Signed
Abiodun Ajijola
National Coordinator
Sumber http://electionmonitorng.blogspot.com
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