May Day: Workers’ Welfare Not Tied To Minimum Wage – PDP Tells APC Administration
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration to elevate its discourse in understanding that workers welfare is not tied to a minimum wage.
The PDP said rather the Federal Government should concentrate in creating conducive working environment, establish capacity building and reward system as well as a secure and economically viable environment that enable workers, and indeed all Nigerians to meet their social and economic needs without stress; as contained in the Atiku Abubakar Master Plan.
This is just as the party also cautioned against unproductive tendencies, stressing that the N30,000 minimum wage should not be a justification for any form of bullying or victimization against the workers.
It commended Nigerian workers on the occasion of 2019 Workers Day, for their service towards the stability and development of the nation.
The party also acknowledges the patriotism and resilience of the workers, particularly for remaining steadfast to the course of nation building, in spite of the harsh economic conditions foisted on them by what it described as “the overtly corrupt, incompetent and grossly insensitive” President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
The opposition party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, said it is rather unfortunate that Nigerian workers found themselves operating under an inept administration that does not appreciate their inputs; that has no tangible strategy for their much-needed capacity building and reward system, but only relishes in Greek gifts and official bullying.
Ologbondiyan however said that at the time Nigerian workers should have been getting ready to enjoy the benefits of a new order under Atiku Abubakar, the nation is being set back by the ills of electoral manipulations.
According to him; “The PDP nevertheless, urges the Nigerian workers not to be despondent, as the mandate, which was freely given to Atiku Abubakar, will be retrieved at the tribunal.”
The party therefore calls on the workers, as patriotic Nigerians, to continue to put in their best in serving the nation even as it wishes them a happy Workers Day.
