LG Allocations: Osun NULGE Chairman Promoting Half-Truths To Gain Public Sympathy-APC

Osun State APC has accused the state chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) headed by Comrade Kehinde Nathaniel Ogungbangbe of making wrong interpretation of court rulings in order to gain public sympathy.

The party submitted that NULGE cannot assert itself as one who can interpret court rulings while also accusing Comrade Ogungbangbe of promoting half-truths.

‘Recall that Ogungbangbe held a press conference on Sunday spewing out a. series of lies and displaying deliberate ignorance about the payment of the accumulated federal allocations to the local governments. 

We want to, as a party which believes in the rule of law, make it abundantly clear that it is not the duty of the NULGE to interpret any court ruling and that the Court of Appeal judgement of the 10th of February, 2025, which reinstated the APC local government council chairmen and their councillors is still in force as there is no record anywhere that it was appealed against. 

It is also not true that the said federal allocations are paid into the  bank account of any of our local government council chairmen or any of the APC member or chieftain but into the bank accounts  of the local government councils’ the party submitted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by its spokesman, Chief Kola Olabisi on Sunday.

 NULGE, the statement added , needed not weave up a series of lies in respect of the payment of the federal allocations to the local governments in order to gain public sympathy.

‘It is unheard of that a supposed labour union like the Osun NULGE would deliberately shun the purpose for which it is existing to become an arm of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).

The sing-song of the NULGE before now was that some agencies of the Federal Government was withholding the accumulated federal allocations to the local government council areas.

Now that the logjam in respect of the local government allocations to the state has been laid to rest, what would be the next excuse of the pungently pliable NULGE which has been on sympathy strike with Governor Ademola Adeleke for seven months now just for failed efforts to annex local government funds?

The statement that the Osun NULGE is not political does not hold any water as it is visible to the blind, audible to the deaf and tangible to the morons that the members of the labour union are working for the interest of the PDP Governor Adeleke.

Our advice for the NULGE officials and their members that are being misled by the union executive is to put on their thinking cap with a view to being part of the winning teams that are beginning to transform the grassroots level of government across the state.

To this extent, we want to plead with the NULGE to shun brigandage and crisis as Osun State is a subset of the country being effectively governed by the rule of law.

We also want to impress it on the statutory security services like the police, the DSS, the Civil Defence and others to maintain water-tight vigilance required to protect the peace-loving people of the state at this particular point in time in the history of the 34-year-old state’ the party added-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079, 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you