No money to conduct LG elections – Bauchi government

The Bauchi State Government on Monday declared that it has no money to give to the State Independent Electoral Commission to conduct local council elections.

The government said though the local council polls was important, it has

been unable to raise about N2 billion required for the election.

Abdullahi Idrees, the state commissioner for Information and Tourism made the declaration in an interview with New Agency of Nigeria correspondent in Bauchi on Monday.

“We are ready to do the election because this a democratically elected government and we respect people that are duly elected.

“We are not saying that it is not important, it is very, very important, but there is paucity of fund and we don’t have the fund for now to sponsor the local government election.

“But I want to tell you that the governor is ready to conduct local government election”.