The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked four of its directors to proceed on retirement in accordance with a circular on the eight-year tenure policy for directors in the public service.
The commission’s National Commissioner and Chairman for Information and Voter Education Committee, Sam Olumekun, announced this in a statement yesterday in Abuja.
Although he did not give the names of the affected directors, the INEC spokesman said while two of them served as heads of department at the commission headquarters in Abuja, the other two served as Administrative Secretaries in the states.
Olumekun said those in the medical cadre were exempted from the directive.
The statement reads: “Following the Federal Government circular HSCF/SPSO/268/T3/2/37 issued on July 27, 2023, the commission has approved the implementation of a policy mandating all directors with eight years or more of service to retire from the public sector.