Fashola Declares Friday Work-Free Day For PVC Collection

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, Nigeria 2015 Election Friday, February 6th, 2015

Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has declared Friday a work-free day for public servants who are yet to collect their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to do so.

The governor also called on private sector employers to release their workers early to enable those of them who are yet to collect their PVCs in their various Polling Units.

This was contained in a release by the Head of Service, Mrs. Oluseyi Williams, saying that 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.

The governor said the desired prosperity and the brighter rewarding future being sought after by the people, both for themselves and for their children, would be determined by their willingness or otherwise to sacrifice time to key into the election process by collecting their Permanent Voters’ Cards for the elections.

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.

Fashola noted that in order for democracy to be truly representative, it must be participatory, saying that such participation conferred 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.