Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) chairman Prof. Mahmud Yakubu yesterday told the Senate that the total cost of the 2019 general elections was not ready.
Her said: “It is provisions of the amendment to 2010 Electoral Act after passage by the National Assembly that will show the commission how elections at primary level by the political parties will be conducted and monetary cost that it will entail on the part of INEC.”
The INEC chairman spoke while defending the 2018 budget estimates of the electoral body before the Senate Committee on INEC.
He told the committee that 85 staff of the 16,000 workforce of the electoral body died last year.
Yakubu was reacting to a question about why budgetary provisions were made for sick bay at the headquarters of the electoral body.
He said some of the deaths were recorded within its premises.
The committee screened additional eight nominees as Resident Electoral Commissioners . Those screened and approved on Wednesday are Dr Usman Ajidagba from Kwara State , Baba Yusuf Abba from Borno State, Segun Agbaje from Ekiti State , Yahaya Bello from Nasarawa State, Mohammed Magaji Ibrahim from Gombe.