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‘Piece-Meal Release Of Poll Result, Unacceptable’
A chieftain of the
Labour Party in Rivers State, Prince Chinwo, has expressed dissatisfaction with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for what he described as the piece-meal release of the March 19 re-run elections in the state.
Speaking in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt, yesterday, he said the INEC was creating a credibility problem for itself by releasing an incomplete result after much delay.
He said INEC in the state has a lot to do to redeem its image by proper and impartial conduct of elections in strict compliance with the Electoral act as amended.
Chinwo regretted that INEC, by its action, has only succeeded in increasing the tension which (INEC) claimed was the reason for the delay in the release of the election result.
He decried the use of the military in the re-run polls despite a subsisting court order restricting the military personnel from election venues, making the scenario war-like.
While urging the Federal Government to call the military to order, Chinwo charged INEC to release the complete results of the polls and fix a date for the cancelled ones.
The Labour Party Chieftain condemned what he described as INEC’s unfinished business in Bayelsa, Kogi and Rivers, saying it is an invitation to chaos.
He lauded the state government for its commitment to the New Rivers vision, assuring that the Labour Party in the state was willing to support Governor Nyesom Wike in bringing democracy dividends to the people.
Kellen Okwu/Francis Egapi
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NASS Sets Date For 2025 Budget Passage
Chairman, Senate committee on appropriations, Sen. Solomon Adeola, stated this on Monday in Abuja at a meeting with the chairmen of standing committees in the Senate.
According to him, Jan. 31 is the date for laying of reports on the appropriation bill before the Senate and the House of Representatives.
He said upon resumption from Christmas and New Year break on Jan. 14, both chambers of the national assembly would suspend plenary for two weeks for budget defence by ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).
Sen. Adeola also said that NASS had fixed Jan. 9 for an open day on the budget to enable various stakeholders, aside heads of MDAs, to make inputs on the budget.
“A tentative time table has been drawn for consideration of the budget at committee level.
“Budget defence sessions begin from Jan. 7, while reports from various committees are expected to be submitted from 15th to 18th of this month.
“Afterwards, collation and tidying up of the various reports will be done by the appropriation committee, with the hope of laying final report on the budget at the Senate on 31st of this month.
“However, the 31st of January fixed for laying of the budget is tentative, as it is just given to guide our work,” he said.
The principal officers of the Senate who attended the meeting included: the Deputy Leader, Sen. Lola Ashiru and Senate Whip, Sen. Tahir Monguno.
They said that the timeframe for consideration and passage of the 2025 budget by the national assembly was short.
They, however, expressed hope on the timely passage of the budget.
The committee, thereafter, went into a closed door session with chairmen of the various standing committees in the Senate.
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