The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Osun State Chapter, has charged its members to ignore the factional group calling for resumption on Monday.
It would be recalled that a factional group, the Association of Concerned Local Government Workers, vowed to return to their offices on Monday.
Addressing journalists on Friday, the State President of NULGE, Dr. Nathaniel Ogungbangbe, said that the call for resumption was a deliberate means of destabilising the peace in the state.
Ogungbangbe insisted that the secretariats are not yet safe for resumption, hence the need for workers to stay at home.
According to him, “The attention of the State Executives of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Osun State Chapter, under the leadership of Comrade (Dr.) Nathaniel Kehinde Ogungbangbe, has been drawn to a blood-harvesting press conference organised by an unregistered and peace-destructive group called Concerned Local Government Workers, working for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state to destabilise and disrupt the peace and harmony that has been reigning supreme in the state.
“These self-centred and parochial people are being paid for this demonic job and that is why they have not relented in calling for the resumption of duties by our members in order to satisfy their paymasters.
“The leadership of NULGE in Osun State is using this medium to appeal to our esteemed members to disregard the call of these killers who are calling our responsible and well-informed members to resume work so as to be slaughtered, because where two elephants fight, the grass suffers.
“Therefore, the leadership of the Union is appealing to all our educated and well-informed esteemed members not to hearken to the call of these gluttons, and to stay away from office until further directive from the elected NULGE State Executives under Comrade (Dr.) Nathaniel Kehinde Ogungbangbe.
“It is highly consequential to note that the State NULGE Executives have not directed our members to resume work, and no screening can be done in the Local Government Service without the supervision of the Osun State Local Government Service Commission, Osogbo.
The Union Executives under Comrade (Dr.) Nathaniel Kehinde Ogungbangbe will not relent in defending our esteemed members against the evil plans of bloodsuckers.”