The
delay by President Buhari to transmit an Executive Bill on the agreed
N30k minimum wage will play a big role in workers' voting pattern in
2019 general election, the NLC has said.
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The National Minimum Wage will determine the voting pattern by
Nigerian workers in the 2019 general elections, the Nigeria Labour
Congress has said.
General Secretary, Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.
Ozo-Eson said that this was due to the delay by President Muhammadu
Buhari to transmit an Executive Bill on the agreed N30, 000 National
Minimum Wage to the National Assembly to kick-start its implementation.
“I want to say that if this is not addressed now, the minimum
wage issue will become the major determinant of the 2019 General
Elections.
“I think the government must ensure that it quickly takes this
matter up on the table so that it does not get mixed up with the
forthcoming general elections in the country,’’ he said.
Ozo-Eson said that it was already more than a month since the Ama
Pepple-led Tripartite Committee submitted its recommendation of N30, 000
report to the president.
“We are already more than three weeks gone, since the
submission of that recommendation of the tripartite committee to Mr
President.
“Mr President had promised at the occasion that he will act
quickly on it. We are disturbed that up till now he has not sent the
bill to the National Assembly.
“Therefore, our advice to workers is that those in government
who have shown no interest in the welfare of workers, or have unleashed
terror on workers, should be voted out.
“We urge our members to use their voting powers to vote such people out,” he said.
(NAN)
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