Be Grateful To Us For Our Patience, Your Policies Are Displacing Nigerians’ — NLC To Presidency

In response to the presidency’s assertion that the Nigeria Labour Congress’s (NLC) countrywide strike is meant to extort the Federal Government, the NLC responded on Tuesday.
Recall that Joe Ajaero, the president of the NLC, was subjected to brutality in Imo state. For this reason, the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) organized today’s strike in protest.

In addition, a restraining order was granted on November 5 by the National Industrial Court in Owerri, the capital of Imo, to stop the Organized Labor from starting the November 14 strike.

Additionally, the federal government obtained a court injunction that prevented the unions and their affiliates from going on strike.

Festus Osifo, the president of the TUC, declared on Monday that the unions would carry out the scheduled strike action in defiance of the court ruling.
Festus Osifo, the president of the TUC, declared on Monday that the unions would carry out the scheduled strike action in defiance of the court ruling.

Presidential advisor Bayo Onanuga responded by calling the unions’ decision to go on strike “an ego-tripping move” and “clearly unwarranted.”

He declared that the unions were attempting to “punish a whole country of over 200 million people over a personal matter” and “blackmail the government.”

Details Nigeria is aware that certain government offices on Tuesday only partially observed the strike.

Furthermore, NLC communications chief Benson Upah stated that the strike announcement was not made in order to “blackmail” the administration.

Union, according to Upah, has no justification for “blackmailing” the government, and the strike is not a “personal matter” as “mischievously.