President Muhammadu Buhari, has said that he has given the Independent National Electoral Commission the required resources for the smooth conduct of the 2023 elections.
He spoke on Friday, in Washington DC.
The President, therefore, said he would not entertain any excuse from INEC on the basis of shortage of funds.
“I made sure they were given all the resources they asked for because I don’t want any excuses that they were denied funds by the government,” Buhari said in response to a question on INEC’s readiness for the 2023 elections at an interactive session titled, ‘A conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria’.
A statement on Saturday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the event was co-hosted by the United States Institute of Peace, the International Republican Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
The statement is titled “At USIP, President Buhari says Nigeria’s agricultural revolution created over 13m jobs in seven years.”
Buhari said INEC is ready “because I made sure they were given all the resources they asked because I don’t want any excuses that they were denied funds by the government.”