MINIMUM WAGE: Buhari Was Never Sincere - Fayose
The immediate former governor of Ekiti state Ayodele Fayose has said Pres. Buhari never had the intention of honouring the agreement reached by the Tripartite Committee.
He disclosed on Wednesday by Media Aide, Lere Olayinka, Fayose asked what other function the committee will
perform since he already promised to send a bill to the National
Assembly to effect the change from N18,000 to N30,000 three months ago.
Fayose said; “It is on record that on November 6, 2018, while
receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of
National Minimum Wage, President Buhari endorsed N30,000 as the new
national minimum wage. He also promised to send a bill to the National
Assembly to effect the change from N18,000 to N30,000.
“This is
more than three months and the President is now setting up another
committee purportedly to recommend modalities for the implementation of
the new minimum wage. So what did the first committee that recommended the N30,000 minimum wage actually did?
“How
many committees is he going to set up on a new minimum wage that he told
Nigerians that he already approved since November last year and was set
to present the bill to the National Assembly?
“The President is
simply playing on the intelligence of the workers by giving impression
that he is committed to the new minimum wage so as to get votes from the
them.
“The workers should therefore shine their eyes and avoid
being deceived by a President who has failed in all ramifications and
desperately seeking to hold on to power even at the expense of the suffering Nigerians.”
Fayose insisted that the president cannot provide any solution to the
problems of Nigeria, “no amount of deceitful
committee will sway the workers into reelecting or allowing a failed
government to superintend over the country for another four years”.

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