The All Progressives Congress (APC), and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), have disagreed over directives given to local government staff by the reinstatement chairman in Osun State.
The reinstated chairmen had ordered the staff to resume at their offices in local government secretariats across the State, but the PDP commended them for refusal to be ‘intimidated.’
The labour union and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), had directed the staff in all local governments to stay away from office till further notice.
Governor Ademola Adeleke, while swearing in the newly elected chairmen, also told them to stay away from council secretariats.
A statement by the director media of the PDP, Oladele Olabimiji, on Tuesday – earlier today, February 25 – stated that the threat of the APC is an open demonstration of habitual hatred for public workers.
The PDP described the organized labour as indispensable partners in nation-building and economic well-being of a state like Osun, and without doubt, must never be treated like some unfortunate slaves, who could be ordered around by some angry infants, to validate evil machinations against the state.
The PDP urged the state government through the local government service commission to protect the state workers in the local councils and insulate them from any unwarranted threats, especially now that the APC and its ignorant ball boys have resorted to open and unbridled death threats against the innocent workers, whose only sin to APC, is their resolve to protect themselves from the cross-fire of violence orchestrated by the troubled opposition, by withdrawing their services.
“The copy and paste threat by the sacked chairmen, who have reduced themselves to hopeless tools of perdition in the hands of their demonic grandfathers in the APC, have once again brought to question, why the APC, right from the days of their progenitors, decided to always work at cross purposes with the wellbeing and happiness of public workers,” PDP said.
