2027 election: INEC Chair, Amupitan seeks improved funding, staff welfare from RMAFC

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Joash Amupitan, SAN, has appealed to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, for accrued and accordant backing to fortify the Commission’s operations up of the 2027 wide elections.

Amupitan made the entreaty connected Tuesday, during a courtesy sojourn to the RMAFC Chairman, Dr. Mohammed Bello Shehu, successful Abuja, describing the sojourn arsenic portion of ongoing efforts to deepen collaboration betwixt the 2 national bodies.

He said INEC’s law mandate covers the behaviour of elections for the offices of the President, Vice President, National Assembly, State Governors, State Houses of Assembly, and the Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory, arsenic good arsenic continuous elector registration and the registration of governmental parties.

The INEC Chairman noted that the outgo of conducting governorship elections unsocial exceeds the combined outgo of Presidential and National Assembly elections, and that the Commission besides bears the fiscal load of pre-election and post-election matters, including predetermination petitions arising from enactment primaries....