Releasing withheld funds to ‘sacked’ APC officials is abuse of power — Osun NULGE

…You’re not successful presumption to construe tribunal judgment, law—Osun APC reacts

By Shina Abubakar

OSHOGBO—The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employee, NULGE, successful Osun State has described the merchandise of withheld assembly funds to the “sacked” All Progressives Congress, APC officials has an maltreatment of powerfulness by officials of the Federal Government.

The Federal Government had withheld allocation owed to Osun State Local Government Council Areas pursuing the standstill astatine the assembly arsenic some the APC elected officials and that of the Peoples Democratic Party laic assertion to power of the secretariats. The imbroglio led to retreat of services by workers astatine the assembly since February this year.

Speaking with newsmen astatine the State Secretariat successful Osogbo, yesterday, Dr. Nathaniel Ogungbangbe, on with Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC Chairman, Dr. Christopher Arapasopo and different NULGE leaders, helium said NULGE members would not enactment with the “sacked” assembly president contempt merchandise of six months allocation to them.

While berating the the Minister of Finance, Accountant General of the Federation, the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Central Bank of Nigeria for releasing the assembly money to the amerciable officials, helium wondered wherefore they decided to jettisoned the regularisation of instrumentality for politicking.

“We person it connected bully authorization that these 3 Principal Officers of the Federal Government person released the Osun State Local Government Councils Allocations for the period of March, 2025 to August, 2025 to the amerciable Bank Accounts opened by court-sacked APC Chairmen and Councilors.

“We find this improvement precise scary and alarming. Paying Local Government Allocations into privately opened and amerciable Bank Accounts of politicians is unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented successful the past of nationalist medication successful Nigeria.

Ogungbangbe, besides appealed to NULGE members crossed the authorities to enactment distant from work, saying moving with the APC officials would magnitude to maltreatment of democracy.

Reacting, Osun APC Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi disclosed that NULGE is not successful presumption to determine which elected officials were sacked by the tribunal oregon construe tribunal judgment, saying the APC elected officials were reinstated by the February 10, 2025 Court of Appeal judgment.

According to him, “We privation to, arsenic a enactment which believes successful the regularisation of law, marque it abundantly wide that it is not the work of the NULGE to construe immoderate tribunal judgement and that the Court of Appeal judgement of the 10th of February, 2025 which reinstated the APC section authorities assembly chairmen and their councillors is inactive successful unit arsenic determination is nary grounds anyplace that it was appealed against.”

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