Osun APC, labour unions trade words over alleged partisanship

…Your tyranny can’t soundlessness america – NLC

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo

The All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Osun State has described the alleged determination of the enactment of the Nigeria Labour Congress successful the authorities to clasp partisanship arsenic shameful and unethical to the improvement of the labour movement.

This is arsenic the organised Labour successful the authorities discloseed that the alleged tyrannical quality of the APC would not soundlessness the national from warring for workers rights.

The APC successful a connection issued by its Director of Media and Information Kola Olabisi connected Friday, urged Osun NLC Chairman to beryllium wary of the authorities helium is playing truthful arsenic not to enactment the labour astatine a disadvantage.

He lamented that the labour person successful the state, alternatively than absorption connected labour-related issues, turned himself to the Spokesperson of Governor Ademola Adeleke which exposed the national to governmental interference.

“It is evident that the authorities NLC nether the enactment of Arapasopo has confirmed the nationalist suspicion that the expected organized labour national has turned itself into an limb of the PDP successful the state.

“Why would it beryllium the preoccupation of a labour person to flagrantly jettison labour-related issues that are beneficial to the payment of his members and prioritize the defence of the authorities of the day?

“We arsenic a enactment are cautioning Arapasopo to desist from hiding nether the statutory refuge of the labour enactment to crook himself into the megaphone of Governor Adeleke for immoderate mightiness person been the idiosyncratic irresistible attraction,” Olabisi said.

However, successful a connection issued by the organised Labour, including NLC, TUC and JNC, which was signed by Dr Christopher Arapasopo and others, it disclosed that the labour question cannot beryllium silenced by the APC’s alleged tyrannical nature.

According to the statement, “We powerfully condemn successful totality the caller verbal battle connected the State’s fig 1 Labour Leader, Comrade (Dr.) Christopher Abimbola Arapasopo, by the Osun Chapter of the All Progressives Congress. This incidental is simply a manifestation of the tyrannical tendencies that person go excessively acquainted successful our state’s governmental landscape.

“We presumption this incidental arsenic an affront to the cardinal rights and liberties of the commercialized national force, and an alarming manifestation of the accustomed tyrannical tendencies displayed by APC successful the State.

“It is evident that the principles of societal justness and the rights of workers and pensioners are being disregarded successful immoderate quarters. We powerfully asseverate that the labour question is simply a captious pillar of our ideology and indispensable beryllium allowed to relation without fearfulness of harassment oregon intimidation.

“We, the Osun State Labour Movement, privation to marque it wide that we volition not instrumentality this onslaught oregon immoderate battle connected the leadership, workers and pensioners lightly. We basal resolute successful our committedness to defending the rights and payment of workers successful Osun.”

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