Kaduna has spent N4bn for LG election – El-Rufai

By Bode Olagoke

Abuja

Kaduna state Governor, Malam Nasir El-rufai, has said his administration has so far spent up to N4 billion in preparations for the conduct of local government elections in the state.
El-rufai, who lamented the high cost of election, said that his government was preparing to conduct the cleanest election in Nigeria’s history.
Speaking at the town hall meeting organised in Abuja by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee of True Federalism, the governor revealed that in the next few days, the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) would take delivery of 300 units of electronic voting machines for demonstration around the state to show the people how to vote.
“We have appointed local government administrators three times since we came into office because we don’t want to conduct local government election, but because when we came in, we needed time to settle down and understand what is going on.
“We realised that you can’t just come in and conduct local government election the next day unless you plan to write the results as some have done. I didn’t think we should do that. People talk about elections without realising that conducting elections has so many components.
“This process needs time and when that process is going on, people think we should leave the PDP appointees. No, we removed them and put our people there. At first, we appointed them for six months because we thought that six months will be enough time for us to study the situation. But we were wrong and so, we had to appoint another set for another six months and again, we were not ready,” he explained.

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