The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated Governor Ademola Adeleke for distributing 20,000 Glo SIM to civil servants.
Adeleke on Wednesday launched Glo-Imole Connect to strengthen communication within the public service and enhance the ease with which Government businesses are carried out in Osun State.
But APC’s Director of Media and Information, Chief Kola Olabisi, faulted Adeleke, describing it as desperation to monitor workers who might be communicating with the APC reinstated local government officials.
He said: “There is no pranks under the sun that the Peoples Democratic Party-led state government has not played in order to illegally access the accumulated local government council allocations in the last seven months.”
APC claimed that Adeleke summoned workers, including the striking National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to Abere, for a crucial meeting only to give them a SIM card for the purpose of spying on them.
According to him: “The latest of sign of desperation on the part of Governor Adeleke over the delayed payment of the accumulated federal allocations for the local governments in the state is the inculcation of an espionage and spy exercise to monitor the activities of the workers.
“To this extent, the Adeleke-led government has opted for the option of monitoring through a centrally-coded means any likely conversations between the striking NULGE staff and the reinstated APC local government council chairmen and councillors, especially on the issue of the accumulated federal allocations.
“It is shameful that a government could go to this obnoxious length to devise a means through which it can be illegally intruding into the privacy of the innocent workers which is a gross violation of their fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“It is a high time that Governor Adeleke and his ilk came to terms with the fact that they are fighting a lost battle on the issue of the federal allocations to the local government councils in the state as the council and other state workers are capable of thinking for themselves that the current PDP-run administration has nothing to offer them and the state.
“If not that the Adeleke administration lacks focus, how could a government that is truly worth its salt be inviting the NULGE staff on strike and other state workers for a mere collection of SIM cards? It is indeed disheartening and shameful.”
He added: “The people of Osun are tired of the lacklustre government of Adeleke and there is no backdoor tactics that can prevent the imminent defeat of the bumbling governor in the 2026 governorship election.”
