By Ola Ajayi

Ibadan—THE Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso 1 has appealed to the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress and all other labour unions in the state to see reason with the state government and find amicable solutions to the on-going industrial impasse.

Oba Adetunji made this call yesterday during the yearly Ramadan Tafsir at his Popoyemoja, Ibadan Palace.

The first class monarch reasoned that dialogue has been adjudged the best solution to the crisis the world over, saying violence doesn’t solve crisis while patience doesn’t spoil anything.

He, however, called on the state government to see to the demand of the labour union and try to shift grounds where necessary.

Meanwhile, NLC is set to resume the protest today over some education policies the state government has been trying to introduce.

The policy which the government describes as a ‘participatory exercise’ is being touted by the Nigeria Union of Teachers in the state as commercialisation of education in the state.

All the explanations by the government that the policy would affect only 30 schools out of 631 schools in the state fell on deaf ears.

The protest, as usual, will start from the NLC office, Agodi gate.

 Ajimobi urges labour to embrace dialogue, end strike

Meantime, the Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has appealed to labour leaders to call off the ongoing strike to give room for dialogue, failing which he said the state might be forced to apply the no work no pay rule after today.

The governor made the appeal in an interview with Government House correspondents shortly after featuring on a live Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State television programme, Eyi Ara, in Ibadan, on Sunday.

Ajimobi said the industrial action was ill-advised since labour had no dispute with the government prior to the strike nor gave government any ultimatum in compliance with labour laws.

He said it had become imperative for the labour leaders to call off the strike to enable those he called the committed and hard working among the workers to resume work in their own interest and the larger interest of the state.