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Many Of Them Are Labour Party Supporters’ – Presidency Reacts As NLC, TUC Enforces Strike ActionPublished on 3 June 2024 at 1:10 PMBy Richard Ogunsile
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The Presidency has reacted to the ongoing indefinite nationwide strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC).
Naija News reports that the organized labour, consisting of the two major bodies, commenced an industrial strike on Monday (today), with many of its affiliates shutting down their workplaces in compliance.

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The strike action is a response to the Federal Government’s refusal to increase the proposed minimum wage from N60,000.

The leadership of the NLC and TUC have been negotiating with the incumbent government for a new national minimum wage, citing the expiration of the current wage award in April 2024.

Despite the government’s offer of N60,000, the unions have insisted on a higher wage of N494,000, reduced from their initial demand of N497,000.

Reacting in a social media post on Monday, President Bola Tinubu‘s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said it was saddening that Labour could go to this extreme over the proposed minimum wage.

He asserted that many of the affiliates of the NLC and TUC are staunch supporters of the Labour Party (LP), the third force in the 2023 general election.

Onanuga asserted further that the labour is playing politics by other means, thereby, harming the Nigerian people they claimed to be fighting for.

“It’s saddening that Labour could go to this extreme. But it is not surprising to the perceptive minds. Labour is harming the Nigerian people they claim to be fighting for.

“Today, many sick Nigerians cannot access medical care at government hospitals. Not even those with critical medical conditions. It appears labour is playing politics by other means. Many of the affiliates of the two central unions, NLC and TUC, are members and supporters of the Labour Party. They logically bear ill will and grudges against the Tinubu administration.

“Otherwise, the issue they claim to be fighting for cannot be resolved by blackmail or sabotage, they cannot even be resolved by the Federal Government unilaterally, the Labour leaders will still have to return to the negotiating table.”

Oga politics is over, leave too much talk and dialogue with them

I don't think Labour are pretending to not support Labour Party.

Bayo is a very funny boy for bringing Labour party into this crisis instead of acting his position, keeping quiet or dousing tensions. I wonder how he got his appointment with that tongue of his

This is the most idiotic statement I've ever heard in my entire life.

See how they have politicized the whole matter. The economy has been shut down and lives are been lost, businesses have crumbled, monies have been lost. Whether LP supports or not, address these lingering issues now and stop the nonsense

Opanka44:
See how they have politicized the whole matter. The economy has been shut down and lives are been lost, businesses have crumbled, monies have been lost. Whether LP supports or not, address these lingering issues now and stop the nonsense

Businesses that crumbled in a matter of hours were not businesses in the first place.

Macphenson:
This is the.most idiotic statement I've ever had in my entire life.

very very idiotic my brother.

Rat get sense pass some APC appointee.

Macphenson:
This is the most idiotic statement I've ever heard in my entire life.

Idiots are in power

From top to bottom

NLC was literally moribund when it came to addressing the issues affecting workers during Ayuba Wabba's era. Now the small power their party LP has gained has made their confidence bounce back again. What a lovely time for citizen democracy!