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INEC speaks on reports on collecting funds from partners to conduct polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday said it did not receive cash support from international development partners to conduct the 2023 general election.
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, revealed this at a meeting with Civil Society Organisations on the review of the 2023 general election.
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Yakubu gave the clarification to address impressions that the commission received huge sums of money from development partners for the election.
Yakubu explained that the commission only received cash support from the federal government.
The chairman said, “However, it is necessary to seize this opportunity to correct the impression in some sections of the public that the Commission received huge sums of money from development partners for the election.
“On the contrary, and for the avoidance of doubt, the Commission did not receive any direct funding or cash support from international development partners.
“Indeed, it has been a longstanding policy of the present Commission not to receive direct funding and cash transfers from sources other than the federal government of Nigeria.”
