A spokesman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, has rubbished the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari
to sign the new minimum wage into law.
The Deputy National Publicity
Secretary of the main opposition party, Prince Diran Odeyemi, described the minimum
wage signed into law by Buhari as “mere propaganda, deceit and scamming” of the
Nigerian civil servants.
He insisted, in a statement, that
the Nigerian workforce deserved more than the N30,000 minimum wage.
Odeyemi argued that based on the
high exchange rate of the dollar when compared to what obtained under the
administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, workers deserve better
than N30,000.
According to him, “I was amused
at the wide jubilation and undeserved publicity being accorded the so-called
minimum wage” which he described as “ridiculously low if compared with the
N18,000 ($122) minimum wage approved during the reign of President Goodluck
Jonathan under the PDP administration.
“The exchange rate of US$ dollars
to the Naira in 2010 was N147 to $1 which then translated N18,000 to be $122.
“If the APC wants to be honest
with themselves and the sufferings of the Nigerian civil servants, what was
expected of the ruling party was to just multiply $122 by the current exchange
rate of N360 to $1 which would have given the civil servants a minimum salary
of $122 x N360 which is N43,920 that they truly deserved.
“The Federal government has
deliberately cheated the Nigerian civil servants with not less that $19 or
N13,920.
“These are the reasons why PDP
went the whole hug traversing the length and breadth of this country during the
presidential campaign with assurances that the Naira was too weak with the
lowest purchasing power ever in the history of our dear nation since the
inception of APC administration on May 29, 2015.”
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