The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has redeployed five Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs).
This was contained in a statement by Festus Okoye Esq, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee.
According to Okoye, those affected by the new postings were the REC, Osun State, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, who had been redeployed to Ogun State while his counterpart in Ogun State, Prof. AbdulGaniy Olayinka Raji, had been deployed as REC in Osun State.
Also, the REC in Bayelsa State, Dr Cyril Omorogbe, had been moved to Cross River State, while Dr Emannuel Alex Hart formerly overseeing Cross River is in charge of Bayelsa State.
The REC, Zamfara State, Dr Asmau Sani Maikudi, had also been redeployed in Kaduna State, the statement said.
Meanwhile, the Director (Voter Education and Publicity), Mr Nick Dazang, had proceeded on terminal leave.
Consequently, Mr Victor Ayodele Aluko had been reassigned from
Director (Administration) to Voter Education and Publicity as Director, while Mr Mikah Thabbal Lakumna had been redeployed in the Directorate of Administration from his erstwhile position as Director (Security).
Furthemore, Mr Nduh Lebari Samson, the statement added had been moved from the office of the Secretary to the Commission to Director (Security).
Mr Yakubu Mohammed Duku, Director in the Electoral Operations Department, had been moved to Niger State as the substantive Administrative Secretary.
Okoye said that: “The handing/taking over activities should be completed by Monday 13th September 2021,” adding that, “The redeployments are part of the Commission’s routine administrative postings.”
