Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke on Thursday declared tomorrow Friday, March 17th as a public holiday.
The governor’s spokesperson, Senator Isiaka Adeleke made this known via a statement by his Spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed in Osogbo.
The statement explained that the purpose of the holiday is to enable Osun State residents to travel to their polling units to vote on Saturday for the State House of Assembly elections.
Senator Adeleke however charged people of the state to be peaceful and law-abiding as they prepare for the elections.
He further called Osun people to file out and exercise their civic rights saying, “election is very critical as you will be electing lawmakers who will be working with me. You must vote right”.
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