The Nigeria Union of Local Government
Employees (NULGE) has vowed to mobilise against the Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN) or any political platform it dissolves
to and ensure that the party is voted out of power in the South-West
and any other parts of the country because of its open opposition to
local government autonomy.
NULGE, making the declaration on Friday,
in Abuja, also directed its members across the country to commence a
three-day warning strike on Monday to register their displeasure at the
Senate’s refusal to approve and allow for local government autonomy.
Addressing a press conference at the NULGE House, Abuja, NULGE General
Secretary, Mr Joshua Irapakob, regretted the opposition of ACN and the
governor to local government autonomy, especially the directive given to
ACN members in both House of Representatives and the Senate to vote in
this regard.
He declared that the union will do everything to
mobilise and vote against ACN and any governor as well as members of the
National Assembly who were against autonomy.
“We will mobilise our
members in the entire local government areas in the country to vote
against ACN completely. If somebody hates you, what do you expect to do?
You too should hate the person,” Irapakob said.
The NULGE scribe
stated that NULGE had done it before against some governors and
political office holders, citing the example of a former Nasarawa State
governor, Aliyu Akwe Doma who, he claimed, was voted out by the workers
against all expectations.
He said: “We have so many ways of catching
rats. We know that some of these governors are actually against local
government autonomy because of the present power they have to exercise
on local government council. What we intend to do is that if they
refused, any state that will not support local government autonomy, we
will mobilise our members against the governors, members of the State
House of Assembly in that state, making sure they don’t return.”
Source: Tribune
