Osun labour threatens to withdraw support for Tinubu over withheld LG funds

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo
The leadership of organised labour in Osun State has said it cannot guarantee the support of workers, pensioners and their families for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid over the continued withholding of local government allocations to the state.

The Osun State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Dr Christopher Arapasopo, disclosed this on Monday while addressing journalists after monitoring compliance with the three-day sympathy strike declared over the withheld funds.

Arapasopo, who was flanked by the state chairmen of the Joint Negotiating Council (JNC), Olalekan Adediran, and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Abimbola Fasasi, said the...