Presidency deliberately withheld INEC budget for 2019 polls for seven months —Senator Abaribe

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• ‘We won’t breach appropriation rules to satisfy APC’

Eyinnaya Abaribe.

By Olalekan Bilesanmi

“In this interview on Channels TV, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe explains why Nigerians should not allow themselves to be misled in the on-going face-off between the leadership of the Senate and the Adams Oshiomhole leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC. He outlines the procedure for the approval of the budget for the 2019 general elections and insists that once relevant committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives finish their work, there would be a meeting of the harmonisation committee before the two chambres of the National Assembly meet in plenary to approve the budget. Excerpts:

What do you say about the non-resumption of the National Assembly and the controversy surrounding it?

It (resumption) is totally unnecessary. Yesterday, the committees on INEC,…



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