The leadership of the labor movement met with President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, August 2nd, at the Villa. The NLC and TUC leaders presented their demands to the president during the meeting, pleading with him to look into quick palliatives to mitigate the impact of subsidy elimination.
NLC President Joe Ajaero stated that the president is aware of the hardship of Nigerians and has pledged to take action to meet their pressing needs.
Abuja’s State House – Joe Ajaero, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and Festus Osifo, president of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), have provided an update on their meeting with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu amid widespread protests.
The gathering took place at the Presidential Villa on August 2nd, a few hours after the organized labor strike was set to begin.
Details of Tinubu’s meeting with Labour Leaders are revealed by Joe Ajaero.
The labor leaders stated the President made vows to handle specific issues that require immediate attention as they left the Villa approximately 30 minutes after their arrival at 5:38 p.m., according to Channels TV.
They stated that they will update their executive committees, where a decision would be made on the ongoing protest. They also stated that Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting would be held on Thursday, August 3, and that all the issues would be taken into consideration, according to The Cable.
NLC and TUC leaders met with President Tinubu in a private setting.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is having a meeting with their leaders at the Presidential Villa in Abuja a few hours before the organized labor movement’s anticipated demonstration.
The presidents of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Joe Ajaero and Festus Osifo, respectively, are present during the meeting with Tinubu.
The unions’ preparations to protest the financial hardship brought on by the Tinubu administration’s decision to end the fuel subsidy were carried out a few hours before to the conference.
nationwide uprising NLC exposes the FG’s assertion that cutting subsidies would save N1 trillion.
President Bola Tinubu’s assertion that more than N1 trillion has been saved since his government ceased paying for fuel subsidies has been debunked by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
Comrade Joe Ajaero, the president of the NLC, stated that the committee assembled by the Federal Government to deal with the unions discovered that no money had been saved since the subsidy was removed during the ongoing nationwide organized labor protest.