President of the NLC, Mr. Ayuba Wabba
The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday walked out of the meeting held with the representatives of the Federal Government, vowing to go ahead with its scheduled nationwide strike on Wednesday (today).
Representatives of the Trade Union Congress, who also attended the meeting, however, said the TUC would not join the strike.
NLC President, Aliyu Wabba, led the labour delegation while the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, led the Federal Government delegation at the talks held in the SGF's office in Abuja on Tuesday night.
After the meeting, Lawal said, "The National Industrial Court has given an injunction that no strike by NLC and TUC should hold tomorrow (Wednesday). It is therefore clear that anyone embarking on strike tomorrow (Wednesday) is doing so illegally and government is assuring all Nigerians to come out and do their jobs tomorrow (Wednesday).
"It the duty of government to provide security for her citizens and anyone who tries to coerce any worker to do their bidding would be made to face the law of the land. We had full cooperation with the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria and they said they are not going on strike. For them, it is a complete return to work tomorrow (Wednesday). It is not the same with the NLC however. They have two factions, one agreed completely with the position of the TUC."
Briefing journalists, Wabba said his team arrived at its decision to proceed on strike following the inability of the Federal Government to meet up with its demand to revert to the N86.50K old pump price of fuel.
Officials of NLC, who pleaded not to be named, said they were angered by the decision of the Federal Government to proceed to court, despite existing negotiation which was at the instance of the government.
The Joe Ajaero faction of the NLC had initially on Tuesday said it would not join the strike while the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers as well as the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Association of Nigeria had last week also dissociated the associations from the strike.
The action of the NLC followed the failure of the parties to resolve the dispute over the increase of the pump price of petroleum by the Federal Government from N86.50 to N145 per litre.
But the Federal Government has threatened to apply the 'no-work-no-pay' rule against workers who join the NLC strike.
The SGF, Babachir Lawal, in a statement on Tuesday, directed all ministers, permanent secretaries and heads of government agencies to invoke the provision of rule against errant workers.
Lawal advised civil servants to shun the exercise in their own interest, which, he said, was called by the NLC despite a ruling of the National Industrial Court, which restrained labour from going on strike on Wednesday.
The SGF added, "This notice is regrettably given in spite of an order by the industrial court against the strike.
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Let the strike begin

R.I.P Democracy

It's only the NLC chairman & his family members that will go to the streets with placards today

the government forced a bitter pill in our mouths and expects us to swallow without complain in as much as i support the removal of fuel subsidy this is not the time for its effect...the problem with this government is that they don't know when and how to implement policies...ZOMBIES displayed how foolish they are when they allowed a blind man lead those with good vision...show me one sector functioning in full capacity and i will agree that there is hope in this present administration

Funny set of people

We are Zombies and we do not care. Buhari will lock them up, just watch out. No bail condition will stop this NLC chairman from spending 16years in Kirikiri prison. Voice Of Zombies(VOZ).

YorubaWoman:
NLC just the voice of the masses.
Things been so bad since the commencement of this term from foreign exchange to PMC price to Garri the common man food.
God will vindicate, rescue us and do justice accordingly. Might be tearing this government

Ordinary tomato lasan is expensive talkless of garri. I support d strike oh. Support am gan

What a country! Everyone seems to be confused. The VP was reported to have said the PMS price hike has nothing to do with subsidy, media is feeding the public with subsidy removal news, the minister for petroleum is as inactive as dead, minister of state for petroleum sef seems to be confused, the labour is divided, Nigerians are divided and there seems to be confusion everywhere. Na wa o