Osun APC Commends LG Workers Over Resumption Option ...Cautions Adeleke Against Frustration Of Ending Strike

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the Association of Concerned Local Government Workers of Osun State for their resolve to resume at their duty osts on Monday after seven months of political strike by the Nathaniel Ogungbangbe-led NULGE faction. 

This resolution of the patriotic workers to go back to work is highly commendable as it will bring to an end the avoidable sufferings being faced by the stakeholders like the revered traditional rulers, healthcare workers, primary school teachers and others.

However, we, as a party, are joining the teeming striking workers who have expressed their displeasure on the plan of the state government to frustrate their resumption on Monday using the promotion letter ploy to drive the plot. 

The Osun State Government in a directive  signed by one Mr L. M. Kareem, the Permanent Secretary, Osun State Local Government Service Commission, had on Friday directed local government workers to report at the commission in Abere, on Monday, 6th of October, 2025, for the collection of their letters of promotion.

The issuance of the strange directive to the council workers to report at Abere for the collection of their promotion letters is not only a panic measure but an indication that all is not well with the infamous administration of Governor Adeleke.

In fact, this latest directive to the striking workers shows that Governor Adeleke and those thinking for his government have missed it a big time as the chosen device for frustrating the resumption of the workers is laughable, puerile, absurd and unreasonable.

How reasonable and cost-effective is the state government directive to the already traumatised local government workers especially from some of the far distances to the state capital like Ife-Odan, Ifedayo, Ikire, Ifetedo etc for mere collection of purported promotion letters when such could easily be collected on their behalf by the Director of Administration or whoever is statutorily saddled with such official function in all the local government council areas?

Is Governor Adeleke saying that some of the health centres in the state should be closed because of a government directive that the workers should come down to Abere to pick up their promotion letters?

When has it become the norm for all promoted government workers to pick their letters the same day as they would not be losing anything if such exercise is varied?

The resumption to local government on Monday by the striking workers is an idea which time has come, and no army of naysayers and saboteurs can stop it. 

e-SIGNED:

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