Through his Chief Press Secretary, Ebenezer Adeniyan, the governor announced at around 7 pm on Thursday that there would be no official activities in the state today to allow workers to travel to their respective hometowns to participate in the council poll.
Expressing their displeasure at what they described as a lack of coordination within the government, a civil servant in the state, who gave her name as Bakri, voiced her dismay at how the government disrupted her plans for the day.
According to her, she and her colleagues waited in the office until 4 p.m. on Thursday, expecting a circular regarding a public holiday 24 hours before Saturday’s election. However, no such notification had been sent before they left the office.
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Bakri revealed that she became frustrated when a junior colleague phoned her at around 8:00 pm to inform her that a work-free day had been declared.
Emphasising that she had planned to clear her workload before the weekend, she noted that the government’s delay would cause the work to spill into the following week while noting it would also affect the traveling of people to their various towns.
Similarly, a parent, Seyi Adu, lamented that she only learned about the holiday upon arriving at her son’s school, where teachers at the gate asked parents to take their children back home.
Adu stated that she drove from Ijapo to Aule Road, only to be told there was no school because of a one-day holiday declared by the government, adding that she wasn’t even aware that Saturday is election day.