Óyo State cannot pay the new National Minimum Wage of
N30,000 just signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, state
Governor-Elect, Seyi Makinde has said.
According to him, state governments ought to have been
allowed to negotiate the new minimum wage for their workers as the condition of
living varies from state to state.
Briefing journalists in Abuja after the induction programme
for returning and newly elected governors, Makinde said that he intends to
renegotiate the implementation of the new minimum wage with the state branch of
the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
Assessing Oyo’s ability to pay the legal N30,000 minimum
wage, the Governor-Elect stated: “It has been signed into law. I personally
believe that individual states should have been allowed to negotiate this
because conditions of living in Lagos are obviously not the same as living in
Ibadan.
“And I will definitely say without fear or favour that it’s
part of the reasons why we are thinking of restructuring. That’s a federal
system of government.
“We have a federation but the state governments I believe,
are no subordinate to the federal government. They are coordinate governments.
“Then, when the federal government makes a law that says
‘well, we are going to pay 30,000 as minimum wage,’ what’s the condition in my
state? Can we support it? I don’t think.
“We are going to engage the Nigeria Labour Congress in my
state and we see how we go from there.”
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