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 Election Monitor 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
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