LG funds row: Osun labour threatens to withdraw support for Tinubu’s re-election

Organised labour successful Osun State has demanded the contiguous merchandise of outstanding statutory allocations owed to Local Government Councils, an extremity to payments into disputed slope accounts and extortion of workers’ salaries, pensions, gratuities and different entitlements.

The labour unions besides declared that they could nary longer warrant the enactment and votes of workers, pensioners and their families for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election, pursuing the continued withholding of section authorities allocations since February 2025.

The demands were contained successful an code presented astatine a property league by Osun NLC chairman, Christopher Arapasopo, connected behalf of organised labour, connected Monday, pursuing the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued to the Federal Government and the Osun State Government to resoluteness the dispute.

The property league was besides connected the archetypal time of the three-day sympathy onslaught directed by organised labour successful the authorities to thrust location their demands.

The legislature said the ultimatum was issued aft an exigency gathering of the State Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Osun State Council, held connected October 28, 2026, but regretted that the authorities had failed to scope a satisfactory resolution.

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