{"id":82735,"date":"2026-02-13T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82735"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:08:10","slug":"inec-seeks-n873-78bn-for-2027-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/13\/inec-seeks-n873-78bn-for-2027-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC Seeks N873.78bn for 2027 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has proposed a budget of N873.78 billion for the conduct of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, presented the proposal on Thursday before the joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Electoral Matters at the National Assembly. He said preparations had begun in line with legal provisions requiring election funding to be appropriated at least 360 days before the polls.<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of the proposal shows that election operations will take the largest share at N375.75 billion, while election technology is projected at N209.21 billion. Administrative expenses are estimated at N92.31 billion, with N154.90 billion proposed for capital expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>The four components total N832.17 billion, while an additional N41.61 billion was set aside for miscellaneous expenses, bringing the total to N873.78 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The budget defence session was chaired by Senator Simon Bako Lalong and his House of Representatives counterpart, Hon. Adebayo Balogun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has proposed a budget of N873.78 billion for the conduct of the 2027 general elections. INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, presented the proposal on Thursday before the joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Electoral Matters at the National Assembly. He said preparations had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82737,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82735\/revisions\/82737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}