INEC promotes 55 directors, 5,141 others

Throughout the country, 5,196 employees of the Independent National Electoral Commission have received promotions.

A message distributed to journalists on Thursday included this information.

“55 Deputy Directors on Grade Level 16 were promoted to the rank of Directors on Grade Level 17, while 54 Assistant Directors on GL 15 were promoted to Deputy Director Cadre on GL 16,” according to a breakdown of the figures.

Additionally, “the majority of the promotion affected 4,749 officers between GL 7 and 13 while 338 officers on GL 14 were promoted to Assistant Directors on GL 15,” according to the commission.

In the meantime, four Commission directors were instructed to take terminal leave.

The decision was made in accordance with a direction from the Federal Government via a circular that was published on July 27, 2023, according to a statement made public on Wednesday by Sam Olumekun, the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee.

According to the regulation, all directors who have worked for the government for eight years or more must retire.

Two of the directors who went on terminal leave, according to Olumekun, were employed as administrative secretaries at the state offices and two of them headed departments in the Commission’s Abuja headquarters.

The Federal Government Retirement Policy, he noted, does not apply to Clinical Officers in the Medical cadre, “as clarified in Circular MH 7205/T31 dated September 7 2023.”