APC Slams Osun NLC Boss, Labels Him Adeleke’s ‘Sellout’

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday launched a blistering attack on the state Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Christopher Arapasopo, accusing him of fabricating spurious allegations against the opposition and serving as a “sellout” to Governor Ademola Adeleke.

The party, in a strongly-worded statement signed by its Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, dismissed Arapasopo’s claims that his life was under threat from the opposition, describing it as a hoax “designed to exploit his sponsor and sustain a reckless lifestyle.”

APC said Arapasopo had “abandoned genuine workers’ welfare issues” and instead chosen to “frolic with women of easy virtue, hotels and eateries under the cover of gun-wielding Amotekun corps.”

It alleged that his conduct had prolonged the “needless” seven-month sympathy strike embarked upon by the state chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) in solidarity with the Adeleke-led administration.

“Council workers are the worst hit,” the statement read. “Many cannot access their cooperative funds and emoluments, while even revered traditional rulers have been unable to receive their statutory allocations because council staff remain away from duty posts.”

The APC further faulted Arapasopo for ignoring critical issues, including poor funding of workers’ pensions, gratuities, and training. It claimed that despite the state government budgeting N2.4 billion for training in 2025, N1.3 billion had already been withdrawn by June without corresponding cash-backing for civil servants’ courses.

“No Kobo,” the party alleged, “has been remitted for Group Life Insurance, while none of the N6 billion earmarked for gratuity arrears has been released.”

The opposition party insisted that Arapasopo, who once benefitted from former Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s administration through union sponsorships and a car gift, had now turned himself into a mouthpiece of the Adeleke government.

The statement concluded with a rhetorical warning: “What would become of his life after November 27, 2026, when Adeleke is sent packing through the votes of Osun people?”