The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have engaged in verbal war over directives given to local government staff by the reinstated chairman in Osun state.
The reinstated chairmen had ordered the staff to resume to their offices across the local government areas, which they resisted, and the PDP commended them for their refusal to be intimidated.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) had directed the staff in all local government areas to stay away from their respective offices till further notice and the staff had complied.
Governor Ademola Adeleke, while swearing in the newly elected chairmen, also told them to stay away from council secretariats.
A statement by the media director of the PDP, Oladele Olabimiji, Tuesday, stated that the threat of the APC is an open demonstration of habitual hatred for public workers.
The PDP described the organised 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 against 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 is their resolve to protect themselves from the cross-fire danger of violence orchestrated by 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 well-being and happiness of the public workers,” PDP said.