By Tunde Olamilekan
The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has told Governor Ademola Adeleke to instruct workers across local government areas in the state to resume work.
The party equally cautioned the state Governor to stop misinforming the public about the authentic reason the federal allocations have not been accessed by the local government council areas across the state for months running.
A statement by the party’s Director of Media, Kola Olabisi, accused the governor of working in cahoots with the leadership of the state chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to withdraw the services of the council workers.
“What could be the rationale behind a state chief executive sponsoring a strike of the council workers against his own government for a selfish reason when it is known to all and sundry that such a protest would affect the people negatively at the grassroots level?
“The stakeholders in the Osun State project, both from within and outside the state, should impress it on Governor Adeleke that it is only an act of wickedness and lack of empathy on the part of the governor that could make him imbibe such unpopular and anti-democratic route,” the statement noted.
The APC further urged the NULGE leadership to stop accusing President Bola Tinubu of withholding the local government funds and direct their plea to Governor Adeleke.
According to the party, “The sponsored interest groups who have been labelling President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for being responsible for the inability of the council chairmen to access the accumulated local government allocations from the federation account should redirect their plea to Governor Adeleke to release the NULGE to resume work in all the local government councils.
“It is because the Governor Adeleke-led administration has been the one preventing the NULGE from resuming that has resulted in the inability of the traditional rulers in the state to be paid their statutory allowances and salaries.
“With the NULGE staff on the sympathy strike with Governor Adeleke, there are no local government workers who would prepare the salaries of the traditional rulers in the state.
“If only for the sake of the royal fathers in the state, Governor Adeleke should sheathe his sword and allow the NULGE to call off their sympathy strike”.
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