Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Osun, has described the withdrawal of services by local government workers in the state as pathetic and unfortunate.
Oyintiloye, a former lawmaker, noted that the action of the workers has paralysed the local government administration in the state and inflicting untold pain on the people at the grassroots.
The APC chieftain, while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, appealed to workers to return to work and save the local government administration in the state from total collapse.
Oyintiloye, a member of defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council, lamented that the provision of essential services in the last one month at the local government level in the state has been crippled due to the withdrawal of services by the workers.
He noted that clinics, primary healthcare centres, marriage registries and administrative offices at the local government have been shut, thereby subjecting pregnant women, students and potential couples, among others, into untold hardship.
Oyintiloye said that many pregnant women at the grassroots could not access their routine antenatal programmes, while many applicants who needed documentation necessary to apply for jobs could not also access the secretariats.
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He said that since there were elected council chairmen, there was no point for the local government workers for absconding from work.
Oyintiloye called on the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in the state not to allow themselves to be used to frustrate local government administration.
According to him, since the union is supposed to be apolitical, it should uphold the tenets of their creation and which is to serve all government in power.
Oyintiloye said that the council chairmen would liaise with security agencies to ensure that workers were adequately protected upon resumption.
The APC chieftain said that the perceived crisis in council areas has been put under control by the security agencies, adding that there is a peaceful atmosphere for workers to resume to their duty posts.
He, however, commended members of a faction of NULGE under the aegis of the Association of Concerned Local Government Staff for their willingness to resume work on Monday.
Oyintiloye said that their commitment to the well-being of the people at the grassroots would be deeply appreciated by the people.
He advised the state government not to engage in divide and rule means to destroy the local government administration.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that NULGE had directed local government workers to withdraw their services from February 17 following political crisis between the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party over a Court of Appeal judgment on councils’ administration.
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