Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has warned the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), against fielding candidates who oppose autonomy for local government areas, saying that it would be catastrophic for the parties.
In a statement signed and made available to journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, President of NULGE, Comrade Akeem Ambali, said organized labour will mobilise their members and families to vote against such candidates.
The statement read: “The NULGE has warned political parties going into their primaries not to give their tickets to political aspirants who openly oppose Local Government Autonomy as such candidates will bring bad luck to their political parties at the polls come 2023.
“It is regrettable that those who held sway in their states but pilfer and plunder Local Government Allocation during their tenure, which is the only selfish reason they openly oppose passage of Local Government Autonomy bill, are now jostling to become the president of Nigeria”, it said.
NULGE submitted that such leaders are not only unpatriotic but they are also anti-people hence, Nigerians must not allow them to be victorious by voting them out of office.
Comrade Ambali said, “If the myriads of problems confronting Nigeria like insecurity, poverty, joblessness, infrastructural decay, women and youth Empowerment, Agriculture and Rural Economy are to be addressed, and if security and overall development in all sectors of, the economy must be achieved, Local Government Autonomy is the only way to go. Hence Nigeria needs a forthright and progressive leader not a pretender to do this.”
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