- Safiu Kehinde
The Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, of invading privacy of the state workers through his alleged distribution of free SIM cards with aim of monitoring their phone calls.
This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Osun APC’s Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi.
In what he described as an act of desperation by the governor to ‘illegally’ access the withheld Local Government allocations, Olabisi alleged that Adeleke summoned all the government workers including the striking National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to government house for ‘a crucial meeting’.
The governor was alleged to have distributed Glo sim cards to all the workers during the meeting with the ulterior motive of monitoring their calls and interactions with the suspended APC council chairmen and councillors.
While slamming Adeleke over he labelled illegal intrusion into the privacy of the workers, the APC held that the governor is fighting a lost battle on the issue of the federal allocations to the local government councils.
The party described the development as shameful, stressing that the people of Osun are tired of the lacklustre government of Adeleke and will be voted out of office by 2026.
“Th statement read; “The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the desperation of the Governor Ademola Adeleke-led administration on the lingering delay in the payment of the accumulated federal allocations for the local government councils in the state.
“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.
“All the efforts of Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers to use the compromised labour leaders, pliable security services, commercialised opinion leaders and even the courts of law have all ended up in fiasco.
“Surprisingly, the latest of such antics devised by the apparently clueless Governor Adeleke government is to summon all the government workers including the striking National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) to Abere, the seat of the state government, for ‘a crucial meeting’ today.
“The latest of such 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.
“A message issued by the secretary of the NULGE to the members stumbled on this morning has this to say:
“I have the directive to inform all our members that the State Government has scheduled a program for all civil servants in the State tomorrow Wednesday 24th September 2025 by 10am at Staff Development Center.
“As part of the program(sic), Glo Sim cards will be distributed to all the civil servants in the State. In view of this, am (sic) further directed to intimate all Branch Chairmen to mobilize all our members to attend the program.”
“A fact-check on the emergency invitation to all the local government staff revealed that the offer of a free Glo line for the NULGE members and others is skillfully devised by the Governor Adeleke-led administration to enable the government monitor their calls and interactions with the duly elected and Court of Appeal reinstated APC council chairmen and councillors.
“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.
“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.”