Ahead of next year’s general election, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has declared its readiness to track the expenses of political parties and their candidates.
This was disclosed by the National Commissioner and Chairman of Information and Voter’s Education, Festus Okoye at an interview.
He said, “The commission will firmly and comprehensively track election and campaign expenses of political parties participating in the 2023 general election.
The commission pioneered detailed tracking of campaign expenses with the 2019 general election and will continue in this direction with the 2023 general election.
The commission in collaboration with development partners trained various categories of staff on tracking campaign expenses and developed a set of reporting forms to facilitate submissions of election income and expenses by political parties and candidates.
The commission will continue to encourage political parties on keeping records and filing relevant reports of the party and election expenses.”