The leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, led by Ayuba Wabba, will meet today in Abuja, to critically review the ongoing nationwide strike and protests to force government to reverse the N145 pump price of petrol to the pre-Wednesday 11 price of N86.50.
The meeting is coming following appeals by the President of Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Yakubu Dogara, and the National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to them to call off the industrial action and return to negotiating table with the Federal Government.
The Wabba faction of the NLC, alongside the Joint Action Front, JAF, had, since Wednesday, May 18, embarked on a nationwide strike and mass protests.
The action had so far recorded low turn out with workers in Lagos State, the economic nerve centre of the country, Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and Rivers State, shunning the strike. On Thursday, the leadership of the National Assembly, in a meeting with the factional leaders, appealed to them to call off the strike.
Speaking with newsmen, General Secretary of NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, said they would be meeting today to review the situation and determine the next line of action, saying, “We will be meeting tomorrow (today) to review the situation to determine the next line of action. After the meeting, a communique will be issued on the outcome.” Equally, leaders of JAF will meet in Lagos today to review the situation, but have resolved to continue the action tomorrow.
A text message by Mr. Abiodun Aremu, JAF Secretary, said the meeting would take place at 2 pm to plan how to re-strategise the protest and mass action to force government to reverse the hike in the pump price of petrol and electricity tariff. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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to be candid, the public is not interested in your action.
ReplyDeleteThey should just go and rest please. .. greedy people fighting for their own selfish interests. Mtchewwww
ReplyDeletethis set of labour group leaders are the weakest ever in Nigeria. shame on u.
ReplyDeleteWell strike might not but we should remember that we will still need NLC later in the future, if we rendered them useless or powerless now they will not have tooth to bite when we need them most.we are Nigerian we can survive hardship.
ReplyDeleteDon't mind them.
ReplyDeleteWhere was NLC when petrol was being sold for N200, N300 per litre.
Wasn't that the right time to strike.
Now that the needful is done, you are coming to mislead the people by not educating them on the need for the change in price.
Did you just said need for the change in price. May God let you suffer the pains of the badly affected masses. Then this issue can be reviewed.
DeletePeople should use their brains. Don't just write for d sake of writing. These people are fighting for their eroded purchasing power. Don't u have a worker in ur family? A salary earner of N18,000 per month could buy a bag of rice before and have over N9,000 in change but today, he can be lucky to have N3,000 in change. Pls, let them be
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