Lagos,Oyo And Kano Declare Today Public Holiday For PVC Collection

The Lagos State Government Thursday
declared Friday a work-free day for its
workers just as the State Governor, Mr.
Babatunde Fashola SAN, enjoined
private Sector employers to release their
workers early to enable those of them who are yet to collect their Permanent Voter’s Card to do so in their various Polling Units.
The Head of Service, Mrs. Oluseyi Williams, who gave the directive in a statement, said
the State Government was desirous of
ensuring that all public servants in the State participated in the voting process adding that they should take the opportunity to go out and collect their cards at their Polling Units.
He declared, “The prosperity and the brighter rewarding future that we all seek, for ourselves and our children over the next four years, will be determined by what we do in the next few days”, adding that no sacrifice could be too much a price to secure a better future over the next four years and beyond.
The Governor, who noted that in order for
democracy to be truly representative, it must be participatory, added that such
participation confers eligibility and imposes a duty on all the citizens from the age of 18 years to vote in the elections even as it also enables them to have a say in the elections. Oyo and Yobe States declared a two-day
public holiday, Thursday, February 5 and
Friday, 6, to allow residents collect their
PVCs. Other states who have declared holidays for
PVC collection include Niger, Imo and Edo.
The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) has extended the
deadline for collection to Sunday, February 8.
Also Kano State Government has declared Friday, Feb. 6 public holiday to allow civil servants who have not collected their
Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to do so.
This is contained in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer in the office of the state Head of Service, Alhaji Mustapha Fagge, and issued to newsmen in Kano on Thursday.
According to the statement, the public
holiday is necessary to enable civil servants use the opportunity to obtain their PVCs at INEC designation centres.
The statement urged civil servants to ensure that they visited the distribution centres to collect their PVCs.