….says wait for APC Chairmen tenure expiration in vain
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to end its seven-month-long solidarity strike with Governor Ademola Adeleke.
The party’s advice comes in the wake of a move by reinstated APC local government chairmen to seek a tenure extension in the Federal High Court.
In a statement signed by its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, the APC argued that NULGE’s prolonged absence from work has caused significant suffering for people at the grassroots level.
The party accused the union’s leadership, headed by Dr. Nathaniel Ogungbangbe, of acting as an extension of the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and prioritizing a political agenda over the welfare of its members.
“If the absconding state NULGE does not change its tactics, there is every tendency that the end of the needless strike is not in sight,” the statement read.
The APC pointed out that with the reinstated Chairmen now seeking a court-ordered extension of their tenures, the union’s wait for their term to expire in October has become a great mistake.
The APC also questioned why the Adeleke administration directed the holding of new local government elections while the tenure of the APC chairmen was still in effect, a matter that is now part of the ongoing litigation.
The party further criticized the NULGE leadership, alleging that while its members were suffering, the executives were smiling to the banks and had recently attended a seminar in Lagos.
The APC concluded by calling the Ogungbangbe-led NULGE executive the worst in the history of the state for its lack of empathy and pro-government stance.
