The Lagos State Government on Thursday declared Friday a work-free day for its workers, just as the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), the enjoined private sector to release their workers early to enable those of them who are yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards to do so in their various Polling Units.
The Head of Service, Oluseyi Williams, gave the directive in a statement on Thursday.
Williams 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.
Enjoining private sector employers to release their workers early on Friday for the same purpose, Governor Fashola 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 PVCs 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.”
He added 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.
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