After an 11-month strike, the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has directed its members to resume duties across local government councils from January 5, 2026
The Nation reports that NULGE embarked on the strike on February 18, 2025, following violent clashes triggered by a leadership tussle between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over control of local government councils in Osun State, which resulted in killings and injuries.
Subsequently, APC-backed executives were reinstated and took over the councils, while the Federal Government released withheld allocations into local government accounts opened by them through the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Although several legal disputes between the two parties have been resolved, a suit on tenure elongation filed by APC members remains pending.
In the meantime, PDP council chairmen presented their 2026 budgets to the Osun State House of Assembly, while APC chairmen presented theirs before legislative councils at the local government level.
In a statement signed by the President of NULGE, Kehinde Ogungbangbe, the union directed members to return to work on January 5, 2026, and called for adequate security to be deployed to all councils to ensure the safety of workers.
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