SEQUEL to a visit on Tuesday by a team from the National Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to apologise for the shoddy distribution of Permanent Voters’ card in Lagos State, Governor Babatunde Fashola, Saturday re-registered, alongside his wife, Dame Abimbola Fashola, for card to be used in the 2015 general elections.
Met on arrival at 9.30am by the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola, and other officials at Ward G3 unit E002m at State Junior Grammar School, Itolo Street, Surulere, Fashola and his wife joined other residents of the area to undertake the registration processes again, after which he was presented with another Temporary Voter’s Card by the Commissioner.Speaking during a short interview with journalists after receiving the card, Fashola urged all residents of the state who have not registered to go out and do so, irrespective of challenges being experienced in the process.
“All I will say is that, no matter how difficult they make this, your love for democracy must be bigger than your inconvenience,” the governor said.
Displaying both cards, Fashola noted that there is no difference between the Temporary Voter’s Card he collected in 2011 and the one INEC has just issued to him now. “This is the card they gave me in 2011. This is the one they have given me again, so I still do not see the difference,” he said.
It would be recalled that the governor and his wife could not obtain their Permanent Voter’s Card when INEC commenced the staggered distribution in Surulere Local Government last week.
Source: Guardian
Met on arrival at 9.30am by the state’s Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola, and other officials at Ward G3 unit E002m at State Junior Grammar School, Itolo Street, Surulere, Fashola and his wife joined other residents of the area to undertake the registration processes again, after which he was presented with another Temporary Voter’s Card by the Commissioner.Speaking during a short interview with journalists after receiving the card, Fashola urged all residents of the state who have not registered to go out and do so, irrespective of challenges being experienced in the process.
“All I will say is that, no matter how difficult they make this, your love for democracy must be bigger than your inconvenience,” the governor said.
Displaying both cards, Fashola noted that there is no difference between the Temporary Voter’s Card he collected in 2011 and the one INEC has just issued to him now. “This is the card they gave me in 2011. This is the one they have given me again, so I still do not see the difference,” he said.
It would be recalled that the governor and his wife could not obtain their Permanent Voter’s Card when INEC commenced the staggered distribution in Surulere Local Government last week.
Source: Guardian
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