Trade Union Congress (TUC) leaders in Osun State protested yesterday the “high handedness” of a judge handling a case involving the union.
They marched from the State Secretariat at Fakunle in Osogbo to the secretariat on Gbongan road.
Addressing reporters, TUC Chairman Akinyemi Olatunji said: “The former chairman, Comrade Francis Adetunji, approached the court through two affiliates of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to stop the new leadership from taking over after spending five years in office, instead of the statutory three years tenure.
“Four times, the court refused to hear the case and lifted the injunction on the suit to make the new leadership function. Now, the same court that refused to sit wrote and accused us of disobeying it by addressing a press conference three days ago. We think we should let the world know what is going on in Osun State.”
The TUC leaders hailed the Head of Service, Mr. Sunday Owoeye, for his neutral stand on the crisis rocking the union.
Olatunji said the TUC’s National Executive Council (NEC), led by Comrade Bala Kaigama, recognises the present leadership and had declared the Adetunji-led executive illegal.
Reacting to the protest, Adetunji said the case was already before an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo.