Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the statement by the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) on the workers’ strike as a confirmation of the insinuations that the APC has infiltrated the ranks of labour unions in the state and is fuelling the crisis.
In a statement by the State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Jackson Adebayo, in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday, the PDP said the position and language of the APC on the strike had exposed the opposition party and its complicity in the strike.
Adebayo stressed that the APC even threw caution to the wind by turning itself to the mouthpiece of the labour unions and demanding for what was not included in the workers’ demand list.
He noted that though APC had never hidden its mentality of retrogression in Ekiti State both in and outside the government, changing from an opposition political party in the state to the megaphone of the organized labour was the highest level of hypocrisy.
The PDP spokesman added that the financial handicap the state was experiencing today was as a result of the profligacy of the Kayode Fayemi-led APC government that ran the state aground from October 2010 to October 2014.
“Yet the party that is supposed to bow its head in shame has now suddenly become the advocate of the workers. It owed several months of salary and deductions before it was flushed out of government in 2014.
“It is unfortunate that the same party that plunged the state into heavy debt which is now responsible for the present inability of the government to pay salary is now turning itself to the sympathiser of the the workers who they ruined financially before leaving the office,” he said.
The PDP appealed to the organized labour in the state to beware of the APC who now romance them just for pecuniary gains, adding that workers in the state were not dullards who would have easily forgotten the bad governance foisted on them by APC and Fayemi and how they punished them by denying them their rights and privileges.
The party also advised the leadership of the APC to cover their faces in shame, as they have now ‘seen’ something good in the labour force that they described as inconsequential while in government.
