By Monsur Olowoopejo
Lagos—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said the attendant stress in the search for Permanent Voter’s Card, PVC, by Nigerians would have been unnecessary if Nigeria had succeeded at his previous attempt on national identity card.

The governor made the remarks while receiving his national identity card from the Director General of the National Identity Management Commission, Chris Onyenmena at the Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja.

Fashola, after receiving his Unique Identification Card, remarked that the country is paying for his previous attempt at capturing the entire individuals in the country in a common data base.

According to him: “I need to emphasis that this is a very important undertaken for all Nigerians. What we have not got right in the previous exercise; we are all paying for it now. One cannot really over-emphasise the role of common and reliable identity management exercise will play.”

; when government whether at the state or federal level can identify all of the people is responsible for.’’

Earlier, the Director General, Chris Onyenmena had made a distinction between a Unique Identification and ordinary Card Issuance; saying unique identification is biometric based.