The Zamfara State Government has declared next week (Monday to Friday) June 20th to 24th, 2022 as a public holiday to enable residents participate in the ongoing voters registration exercise in the state.
The five days holiday is “to enable those who are yet to take part in the exercise to do the needful in fulfilment of their civic rights and responsibilities”.
This was contained in an announcement signed and issued to newsmen in Gusau, the State capital by the commissioner of information, Ibrahim Magaji Dosara, a copy of which was made available to the Spectacles on Saturday, 17th June, 2022.
The announcement partly reads:
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
This is to inform the general public that His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Zamfara State, Hon. Bello Mohammed Matawalle, MON (Shatiman Sokoto), has declared next week ( Monday to Friday) June 20th to 24th, 2022 as work free week, to enable the state public and civil servants to go to their respective localities to register and obtain their Permanent Voter Cards, PVC.
By this announcement, all Commissioners, Special Advisers, Permanent Secretaries, other public office holders, party officials and traditional rulers are here by directed to monitor and supervise the on going Voter Registration exercise to ensure that all eligible voters within their wards and local governments register and obtain their Permanent Voter Cards to enable them exercise their fundamental rights and civic responsibilities.
