The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has met with the House Committee on Electoral and Political Parties Matters.
Professor Yakubu met with the lawmakers on Wednesday at the National Assembly in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
It waspart of the efforts by theNational Assembly towards resolving the controversy surrounding the approval of the electoral umpire’s budget for the general elections in 2019.
The talks held one day afterthe leadership of NASS cited the inability of the meeting to hold as part of the reasons for the delay in the reconvening of the National Assembly.
In a statement on Tuesday, they said both chambers had agreed to reconvene to consider the proposal this week after a meeting between the Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Electoral Matters and INEC officials must have held on or before Monday, August 13, 2018.
Wednesday’s meeting was also attended bysome INEC National Commissioners and top officials of the commission.
•Sourced from a Channels TV report
•INEC 2019 General Elections Budget Presentation by Chairman INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and members of the Commission before the House Committee on Electoral and Political Parties Matters./ Twitter/INEC
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