Osun JUSUN leadership allowed itself to be used — APC

By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Osun State chapter, has castigated the judicial workers as economic saboteurs who were willing tools in the hands of the state government for selfish reasons.

Recall that the Osun State chapter of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) yesterday called off more than three months’ strike against the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Adepele Ojo,  which locked up all the courts in the state since November 22nd, 2023.

The state chairman of JUSUN, Comrade Oluwagbemiga Eludire announced the end of the strike on Tuesday, with a directive to his members to resume work on Monday, March 11th, 2024.

Eludire in his statement stated that the decision was in pursuant to the tripartite memo signed between (sic) the Osun State Government, the management of the Osun State judiciary and, the JUSUN leadership.

In his remark on the development, the Osun State APC chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, in a statement issued by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, on Wednesday said that the most annoying part of state’s statement issued by the state leadership announcing the cessation of the strike was that “there shall be no victimisation of any form against any judicial officers or any members of JUSUN for participating directly or indirectly in the strike action or as a result of the strike action.”

Lawal stated that such a statement by the state JUSUN portrayed its weakness and phobia for imminent sanction for an offence wittingly committed against the state by a group of hired quislings advancing the political cause of their tax payers.

Lawal pointedly declared that it was a pity that the Osun JUSUN leadership allowed itself to be used and it must be ready for its consequences as the whole of the state and beyond were the victims of the irrational strike shamelessly embarked upon by its members.

The state APC chairman stated that there is an urgent need for the appropriate books of the law to be opened by both the direct and indirect victims of the ill-thought, unpatriotic and wicked four-month-old strike of the Osun State judicial workers.

He hinted that it was the resolve of his party that whoever had a hand in the economic adversity of the state and deprivation of law and justice for that long period of time should be brought to justice if only to serve as a deterrent to the other unions who might be contemplating similar unpatriotic action.

In Lawal’s words: “In actual fact, the development is a victory for the judiciary in the state as it remained unbent and unruffled by resisting to the end the ploy by proxy of the state executive to drag the integrity of their profession in the mud.

“One needs not be grounded in law to acknowledge the fact that the infamous JUSUN strike which almost secured the declaration of a state of emergency for the Adeleke-led government is another monumental minus for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration in the State of the Virtuous.”