Ogun workers shun Dapo Abiodun's invitation to his Iperu home

All seems not to be going well with Governor Dapo Abiodun's attempt to appease civil servants in Ogun State, ahead of the governorship election on Saturday.

Our reporter reliably gathered that despite repeated invitations, many labour and trade union members have refused to meet with the governor in his Iperu country home.

Despite buying over a few labour leaders to organise the meetings, it was gathered that the majority of Ogun workers are against the re-election bid of Abiodun and have vowed to deal with any labour leader who sells them out.

The workers' grouse, this newspaper understands, stems from the inhuman conditions the Abiodun government has put the workers in. Workers lament that the government has failed to pay several months of pension deductions, leave bonuses, among many other outstanding payments to workers.

On Monday, a scheduled meeting with judicial workers was aborted abruptly when union members realised they were being lured to meet the governor without authorisation. This follows a similarly botched meeting with the medical and health workers union.

Abiodun has been calling for a series of meetings to pacify the leaders of the political class, traditional institutions, religious bodies and the organised labour at his Iperu home. The governor is seeking their support to convince their constituents to support his re-election despite years of neglect.

This gomina so sabi govern. The first four years when you suppose to build their trust against reelection, you were misbehaving up and down. Now you are trying to lure them, with what exactly? Salary, you no pay. Pension dem no see. You are now calling meeting at 12:55pm.