You Lack Authority To Dictate Conditions For Resumption To Your Employers, Council Chairmen- Osun APC Knocks Striking NULGE Staff....Tells Police, DSS To Hold Ogungbangbe Responsible For Breakdown Of Law, Order

PRESS STATEMENT.               

(30TH DECEMBER 2025)

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the striking state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) under the chairmanship of Dr. Kehinde Nathaniel Ogungbangbe of being needlessly involved in partisan politics to the extent of becoming an extension of Governor Ademola Adeleke's choice of political extraction.

The statement dated 29th of December, 2025 issued by Ogungbangbe indicating the willingness of his striking members to resume from their ten months' *sympathy* *strike* with Governor Adeleke was a welcome development as their hitherto choice of abandoning their jobs for that long was at their whims and caprices orchestrated by the governor.

We are stating  unequivocally that the leadership of the Osun State  chapter of the NULGE led by Ogungbangbe is asking for more than it can chew as it is beyond the scope of their official responsibilities to dictate the Council executives they could work with.

When has the Osun State NULGE assumed the role of the courts to interpret and choose the judgement of the court to obey or not which has turned it to a grossly partisan and a meddlesome interloper in the estimation of the right-thinking members of society?

Anyone with a hindsight does not need rocket science to suspect and conclude that the Osun NULGE under the pliable Ogungbangbe is a willing tool in the hands of Governor Adeleke and his cohorts in their eventual resolve to end their ten-month-old abandonment of their work places.

One thing that is disturbing is whether a medical doctor of the status of Ogungbangbe is not informed and  lettered enough to know that the suit on the determination of the tenure of the APC reinstated chairmen and councillors is subsisting at the Federal High Court, Osogbo?

It is also alarming that it is beyond the comprehension of Ogungbangbe to know that it is also for the determination of the Federal High Court, Osogbo, whether a lawful election can be held during the pendency of the tenure of the APC reinstated chairmen and councillors.

We view the conditions rolled out by Ogungbangbe for the resumption announced as contemptuous, criminal, unacceptable, annoying, illegal and beyond their roles as public servants as they are unknown to the civil service procedures.

It is unheard of for a tail to wag the dog as it is strange and preposterous for employees to be dictating the rules of engagement for his employers as the Osun State NULGE is doing with impunity through its tirade issued on their resolve to resume.

There is no any other mission for Ogungbangbe to accomplish through the conditional statement of resumption if not to  deliberately create chaos, pandemonium, crisis and violence which is capable of rocking the subsisting peace being enjoyed across all the local government council areas in the state  under the APC reinstated chairmen and councillors.

We should remind Ogungbangbe that the suit his section of NULGE instituted in the Osun State High Court to remove the APC Chairmen and Councillors is still pending in court and he cannot be the judge in his own cause. He should allow the court to do its job.

The long and short of the Ogungbangbe controversial statement is an orchestrated ploy to aid the entities described as 'Unknown parties' in the recent landmark Supreme Court judgement to have an illegal entry to the local government council areas.

We are putting the statutory security services like the Police, the Department of Security Service (DSS) and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on notice to beef up their tentacles with a view to arresting and prosecuting whoever is planning to disturb the public peace in the various council areas under the guise of implementing the premeditated crises being planned by the NULGE.

The security services should adequately protect some of the returnee  NULGE staff whose mission to resume their duties is genuine without necessarily tying it to any obnoxious and illegal conditionalities.

We count on the ability of the statutory security services to maintain peace and order in all the local government council areas and the Area Office in Modakeke in the interest of tranquility in the state.

We want to appeal to the parents and guardians to warn their children and wards not to be willing tools in the hands of desperate and disgruntled political functionaries who are safely keeping their own children outside the shores of the nation.

Should there be a breakdown of law and order based on the verifiably partisan posture of the leadership of the Osun NULGE to cunningly smuggle in the 'unknown entities' into the local government council areas, Ogungbangbe should be expressly held responsible for it.

A word is enough for the wise to know that whose head is used to break a coconut doesn't normally live to be partakers among those who will feast on it.

e-SIGNED:

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