Ekiti NLC Boss denies N25m bribery allegation

By Rotimi Ojomoyela
Ado-Ekiti —The Chairman of the Nigeria
Labour Congress, NLC, in Ekiti State, Comrade
Ade Adesanmi has denied the allegation that
labour leaders in the state collected N25
million from the All Progressives Congress,
APC, in the state to embark on the recent
industrial action by workers, describing the
accusation as an insult to Ekiti workers.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti, at the weekend,
Adesanmi appealed to Ekiti workers to be
loyal to the Ayodele Fayose administration to
prevent anarchy in the system.
Reacting to the bribery allegation leveled
against the NLC in the state, owing to
suspicion on how the 6-week strike they
declared to press for the prompt payment of
workers’ salaries ended abruptly and without
success, Adesanmi accused a lawmaker from
Ekiti of being behind the ‘unfounded
accusation.’
Adesanmi said: “The issue of us getting N25
million bribe from the opposition and the
N10 million they said we collected from the
government were cheer blackmail. We have
investigated the matter very well and we got
to know that a certain female senator from
Ekiti was behind the allegation.
“But let me say here that the crops of NLC
leaders we have in Ekiti are not the type that
will compromise. We have never done that and
we will never do it,” he said.
Speaking on the necessity of loyalty of
workers to government, Adesanmi said the
fear of divided loyalty to the government of
the day makes it imperative for workers not to
dabble into partisan politics   in spite of the
fact that no law in the country insulated them
from exercising the right. Vanguard

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