Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa has approved the promotion of 4,200 workers that are due for promotion in the state with their accompanying financial benefits.
The Governor through the state’s Head of Service, Mr. Bayo Philip, disclosed this at the official flag off of the year 2024 promotion exercise for civil servants in Akure, the state capital on Wednesday.
Expressing appreciation to the Governor for the gesture, Philip noted that it was important that beneficiaries put in their best in their service delivery.
He stressed further that his leadership will be aversed to a situation where officers retiring early in a particular year they are due for promotion would be made to go home without their last promotion.
The Head of Service said the promotion process for year 2025 would commence and be concluded before the end of the year.
He added that “they would begin to enjoy their promotion from the beginning of the year and subsequent years.”
He further called on public servants to insulate themselves from partisan politics while urging them to that steer clear of any form of election campaigns under any guise.
Philip however enjoined them to sustain the integrity of the service with the use of the newly distilled approach ”don’t deliver short, don’t deliver late” as their guilding principle.
‘I must appreciate Mr Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, who said, Head of Service, don’t pursue me with any file, everyone who is due for promotion, go ahead and promote them.’
“The position of our governor, Aiyedatiwa is that a labourer is worthy of his wage even before his sweat will dry and an officer is worthy of his promotion as and when due,” he said.
The Head of Service added that no deserving officer has been left without being promoted, noting that this has to so with the goodwill of the government of Ondo State.
