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End the Strike, Restore Grassroots Governance: Osun APC Challenges Adeleke on NULGE Crisis

Published by admin on August 25th, 2025.

End the Strike, Restore Grassroots Governance: Osun APC Challenges Adeleke on NULGE Crisis

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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has cautioned the state Governor Ademola Adeleke 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.

It is a statement of fact that there is in place in all the local government council areas in Osun the elected chairmen and councillors by virtue of the Court of Appeal judgement of the 10th of February, 2025 which reinstated the APC council executives.

Why is it that Governor Adeleke is not bold enough to tell the unsuspecting members of the public that he is the one who has been working in cahoot with the leadership of the state chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to withdraw the services of the council workers in a sympathy protest since then?

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.

Must Governor Adeleke be playing politics with everything without thinking of the untoward effects it would have on the people?

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 to resume that has resulted to 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.

e-SIGNED:

Mogaji KOLA OLABISI, Osun State APC Director of Media and Information.