Governors should determine minimum wage independently — Okupe

The erstwhile Director-General of the Peter Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, said each 36 authorities governors should beryllium allowed to determine their minimum wage.

Okupe said this connected Channels Television’s Politics Today connected Friday, adjacent arsenic helium faulted the National Minimum Wage Act, which mandates each governors to wage a azygous minimum wage to workers successful their states.

“We should not marque laws that are all-encompassing and marque it compulsory for each governors successful the federation to obey them. They are sub-nationalities connected their own,” Okupe said.

“For instance, if you wage a minimum wage successful Lagos, wherefore should I wage that successful Sokoto? Let each politician determine for his ain state, by his ain people, what helium tin afford.”

Okupe added that President Bola Tinubu should beryllium much acrophobic with issues affecting the Federal Government.

The erstwhile statesmanlike adjutant besides said that Tinubu should let the states and the labour unions astatine the authorities level to hold connected a caller minimum wage.

The leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had declared a nationalist onslaught pursuing their nonaccomplishment to scope an statement with the Federal Government connected a caller minimum wage.

Organised labour had demanded a caller minimum wage of N497,000 for Nigerian workers, which they reduced to N494,000. After respective meetings, the Federal Government projected the sum of N60,000.

The labour unions had besides failed to scope an statement with the authorities connected the reversal of the caller hike successful energy tariffs, starring to a nationwide onslaught past Monday, which crushed Nigeria’s system to a halt.

Labour, however, decided to telephone disconnected the onslaught past Tuesday pursuing the Federal Government’s committedness to summation the minimum wage to an magnitude greater than N60,000, with negotiations inactive ongoing.

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, aft a gathering with the members of the Tripartite Committee, which lasted for implicit 12 hours connected Friday, said they are adjacent to agreeing connected a caller nationalist minimum wage.

As such, the tripartite committee is expected to marque an announcement connected the caller minimum wage immoderate clip soon.

However, the 36 authorities governors person said that the N60,000 minimum wage projected by the Federal Government is not sustainable and cannot spot the airy of day.