Strike politically motivated, NLC, TUC’s affliates are LP members — Onanuga

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has accused labour unions of harming the precise radical they assertion to represent.

Onanuga besides alleged the labour unions’ concern enactment was politically motivated, pointing retired that galore affiliates of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are supporters of the Labour Party (LP).

The president’s spokesperson disclosed this successful a connection connected Monday, portion reacting to the organised labour declaration of a nationwide strike, which began today, implicit demands for a caller minimum wage among others.

The Guardian reports that organised labour had declared a nationwide onslaught implicit a projected caller minimum wage aft a gathering betwixt the tripartite committee connected nationalist minimum wage and representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its Trade Union Congress (TUC) failed to scope an statement connected a caller minimum wage and the reversal of the caller hike successful energy tariffs.

However, Onanuga said the national logically bears sick volition and grudges against the Tinubu administration.

He besides added that the issues raised by the labour unions cannot beryllium resolved done blackmail oregon sabotage, stating that the onslaught could person an interaction connected the nation’s healthcare system.

Onanuga said, “It’s saddening that Labour could spell to this extreme. But it is not astonishing to the perceptive mind. Labour is harming the Nigerian radical they assertion to beryllium warring for,” Onanuga said.

“Today, galore sick Nigerians cannot entree aesculapian attraction astatine authorities hospitals. Not adjacent those with captious aesculapian conditions.”

“It appears Labour is playing authorities by different means. Many of the affiliates of the 2 cardinal unions, the NLC and TUC, are members and supporters of the Labour Party.

“They logically carnivore sick volition and grudges against the Tinubu administration. Otherwise, the contented they assertion to beryllium warring for cannot beryllium resolved by blackmail oregon sabotage; they cannot adjacent beryllium resolved unilaterally by the Federal Government; the Labour leaders volition inactive person to instrumentality to the negotiating table.”

Meanwhile, the national authorities had appealed to organised labour to reconsider its planned indefinite onslaught acceptable to commence today, Monday, June 3.

While the unions are pushing for a caller minimum wage of N494,000, the Nigerian authorities is offering N60,000.

The FG, done the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, says the sum of N494,000 nationalist minimum wage being demanded by organised labour, which cumulatively amounts to the sum of N9.5 trillion, is susceptible of destabilising the system and jeopardising the payment of implicit 200 cardinal Nigerians.

In a last-minute effort to avert the strike, leaders of the National Assembly met with representatives of organised labour yesterday. However, the gathering ended successful a deadlock, with labour unions insisting connected going up with the strike.

Speaking aft the meeting, TUC President Comrade Festus Osifo said that the onslaught could not beryllium called disconnected without consulting national members.

He said, “It is hard and, successful fact, intolerable for america arsenic labour leaders to telephone disconnected the onslaught here. We request to pass with our assorted organs, meaning that the concern enactment starts connected Monday arsenic planned.”