The Chairman of the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, in Osun, Adewale Adebayo, had alleged that Governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration was coercing Finance Directors and Heads of Local Administration to alter council account signatories.
However, responding swiftly, Osun State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, dismissed the allegations as mere speculation, saying it is just an attempt to say something because the Commissioner for Local Government has confirmed that he never gave such a directive.
Alimi added that they want to create a false narrative because they have made themselves look foolish in the eyes of the public.
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Meanwhile, the APC in Osun has urged local government workers to return to their duty posts, insisting they should remain neutral in the political tussle over council control.
A former Special Adviser on Education under fomer Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, Jamiu Olawumi, who has been speaking for the party, emphasised that the reinstated local government chairmen had already given workers a 72-hour ultimatum to resume work.
The Osun chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, however, rejected the ultimatum, with its Chairman Christopher Arapasopo stating that workers would only return when their security was guaranteed.
Olawumi, however, insisted that workers were expected at their duty posts from today, adding that chairmen and councillors were already running the councils without them.