Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on
media and publicity, has described the ongoing protest by the Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC) as a needless one.
On Tuesday, members of organised labour took to the streets
of cities nationwide to protest the economic hardship and spiralling inflation
confronting the citizenry.
During an interview on TVC, the president’s spokesperson
said the federal government is doing everything possible to ameliorate the
hardship in the land.
“Any labour union that is speaking to the concerns of Nigerian families, the pains that are being felt by our people, is absolutely free to do so. It is right that Nigerians speak up in difficult situations,” he said.
“And the government
has been doing everything possible to alleviate those concerns.
“But we also want to separate the legitimate concerns being
expressed by some of the labour unions from people trying to leverage some of
the situations in the country to achieve a political agenda.
“We have seen the Trade Union Congress (TUC) pull out of the
purported nationwide protest. We have seen the National Association of Nigerian
Students (NANS) pull out of the protest. There is no unanimity behind what NLC
is trying to do.
“I believe all of the
legitimate concerns being raised by the unions are being tackled by the
administration of President Bola Tinubu.”
Despite a last minute intervention, the federal government
was unable to convince the NLC to halt the nationwide protest slated for
Tuesday and Wednesday.
On February 22, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, minister of state for
labour and employment, said there has been substantial progress on the
agreements reached with the labour unions.
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