Edo State Governor - Addressed market women on Ebola, and Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC)

On Monday Govenor Adams Oshiomhole, held a sensitisation meeting with market women in the state on precautionary measures to stop the spread of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease in the state. While he was addressing the market women in Benin City, said, “his meeting today is in two segment: first, to tell you about the Ebola Disease that was brought from another country to Lagos.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole was thanking God that the deadly disease has not entered Edo State.

He said, “Because of this, it is good that we should know what to do as people travel to different parts of the country”

Secondly, He further said the part of his sensitisation meeting is to let the market women know the value of the INEC Permanent Voters’ Cards. He said: the INEC voters registration and collection of the Permanent Voters Card will soon commence in Edo State. So, He advised all market women to go all out to the designated centres to which they registered, at the appropriate date that will be later disclose to them for collection, because it is your power as the 2015 General Elections draws closer.

“As busy women, some of you may want to procrastinate your collection to a later date. It is risky because the exercise according to INEC will last for three days. So we want to ensure that within those three days, every market woman goes to the designated centres to collect their permanent voters’ card because without that, you cannot vote and if you have the temporary voters card, you will not be allowed to vote”.

He advised the market women leaders to educate their members on the need to swear to an affidavit to enable them get permanent voters card in case their temporal voter’s card has been misplaced.

He however cautioned the market women to jealously guide their Permanent Voters Card from political miscreants who may want to deceive them on the pretext that they are keeping it for them maintaining that the Permanent Voters Card is their power to vote.

Responding on behalf of the Market Women from Edo South, the leader of the delegation, Mrs. Blacky Omoregie thanked the Comrade Governor for the sensitization meeting stressing that the market women will respond to the call for personal hygiene and caution.

According to her, “we thank you our Comrade Governor on this very important meeting and I want to assure you that our market women will be enlightened on the need to observe precautionary measures so as to prevent the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in the state as well as ensure that they all collect their permanent voters cards when the time comes.”