The Organised Labour has expressed doubt on the sincerity of the interventions President Bola Ahmed Tinubu rolled out in his national broadcast to Nigerians to cushion the effects of his administration’s policies on the citizens.
This is just as the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has urged President Tinubu to act fast to save millions of Nigerians from starvation and hardship.
Vowing to proceed with its planned protest over the removal of petroleum subsidy, the Organised Labour said what the President told Nigerians was neither here nor there considering that after spending two months in office, there was no concrete measures to bring immediate succour to the people.
Tinubu had, in his broadcast, said his administration was monitoring the effects of the exchange rate and inflation on gasoline prices with a pledge to intervene “if and when necessary.”
But addressing reporters after the resumed meeting of the Presidential Steering Committee on Palliatives, held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, said the plan for workers to proceed on a peaceful protest from tomorrow had not changed.
Ajaero, who dismissed fears that the peaceful protest could be hijacked by hoodlums, said that had never happened in the history of workers’ protest even as he said it was the responsibility of security agencies to provide security for the protest to protect the workers.
While expressing doubts about President Tinubu’s ability to control inflation and gasoline prices due to the unification of the exchange rate, the NLC leader said the meeting was adjourned to 12noon today to enable the labour leaders to listen to the president’s national broadcaston Monday.
