Indirect Primaries: INEC Chairman Meets Reps Committees

• Indirect Primaries: INEC Chairman meets Reps committees

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Yakubu Mahmood, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, met with the House Committee on Appropriations and Communications on Thursday to discuss the indirect primaries.

It should be noted that the House resolved that committees meet with the INEC Chairman to discuss the indirect primaries.

File Photo: Members of the House of Representatives

The resolution was passed last week following a move by Kogi State’s Leke Abejide.

Muktar Batera, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, stated during a press conference that MPs addressed the cost of direct primaries.

Batera said the INEC Chairman informed that lawmakers “political parties have the responsibility on primaries and the funding of the primaries.”

Also speaking to journalists, Mr Mahmood said the commission is yet to determine the cost of direct primaries.

On the recommendation of the Commission to President Muhammadu Buhari on direct primaries, he said “A letter was submitted to the President. I can’t divulge what I told the President.”

Nigerians are still awaiting the response of the President on the bill.

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