NASS should handle the issue of INEC budget in a bi-partisan way — Ahmed, President’s aide

By Olalekan Bilesanmi

 Ismael Ahmed is Senior Special Assistant to the President on Social Investment. He is also a member of the APC Board of Trustees. In this Channels TV interview, Ahmed says it is very important that all political parties call their members in the National Assembly to reconvene.

Are you satisfied with the way your party is going about the issues in the National Assembly?

What do you expect me to say? That I’m not impressed with my party?

Okay, is this the best way your party can go about it?

I think the issue of reconvening the NASS attracts too much importance, such that the budget of INEC should be handled in a bi-partisan way. It should not only be a partisan call of APC. Other parties should also call their members in the National Assembly and ask them to do whatever is necessary to get them back on the table because this is about democratic…