Payment of Withheld LG funds to “sacked” APC Chairmen Is Abusive Of Power – Osun NULGE Tackles Presidency

Members of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employee, NULGE, Osun State have berated the Federal Government for releasing six months withheld Local Government Council allocation to the “sacked” All Progressives Congress officials.

Council allocation in the state was withheld since February 2025 following imbroglio over control of council secretariats by officials of both the APC and the PDP leading to the closure of secretariats across the state and NULGE withdrawal of services.

Addressing newsmen in Osogbo on Sunday, NULGE President, Dr Nathaniel Ogungbangbe along with other leaders described release of the fund to APC officials as an abuse of power by officials of the Federal Government, including the Minister of Finance, the Attorney-General and Accountant-General of the Federation.

“We have it on good authority that these three Principal Officers of the Federal Government have released the Osun State Local Government Councils Allocations for the month of March, 2025 to August, 2025 to the illegal Bank Accounts opened by court-sacked APC Chairmen and Councilors.

“We find this development very scary and alarming. Paying Local Government Allocations into privately opened and illegal Bank Accounts of politicians is unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented in the history of public administration in Nigeria.

“We strongly believe that if these three Principal Officers of the Federal Government and the entire Federal Government which they represent do not have respect for our Constitution, which they have sworn to uphold, they ought to have respect for our Judicial Authorities more particularly the Supreme Court of Nigeria before whom the suit in respect of these funds is currently pending.

“This is supposed to be a democracy and we insist on the RULE OF LAW. We cannot be expected to work with politicians who have been sacked by competent Courts of Law but are being imposed on our state by the Attorney-General”, he said.