By Rotimi Ojomoyela
Ado-Ekiti
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state has appealed to all registered voters that were yet to obtain their permanent voter cards to do so.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had expressed worry over the high number of permanent voter cards yet to be collected.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Alhaji Halilu Pai, who announced this, said only 285, 794 out of the 635,315 permanent voter cards had been collected.
Fayemi, in a statement issued yesterday in Ado-Ekiti by the spokesperson of the Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, Mr. Dimeji Daniels, said with the May 21 deadline set by INEC, there were only six days left for those that were yet to collect their cards to do so if they were to vote in the June 21 governorship election.
INEC had said that the use of temporary voter cards would not be allowed in the election.
Fayemi stressed that good governance “can only be engendered and sustained when citizens perform their civic responsibility such as voting.”
He urged people to collect their permanent voter cards to be able to keep their choice in the June 21 governorship election, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, in office for the delivery of more dividends of democracy.
