On Sunday, Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), urged President Bola Tinubu to raise the minimum wage for workers while supporting organised labor’s desire for a significant rise.
President Bola Tinubu, according to Atiku, is in charge of a brutal economic squeeze that condemns workers to live on less while paying them more on paper.
He claimed that the self-satisfied rhetoric of reform by the Tinubu administration has turned into an insult to Nigerians whose pay cheques disappear between the food market and the petrol station.
According to a statement released by Phrank Shaibu, Director of Strategic Communications for the ADC Presidential Campaign Council, Atiku claimed that Tinubu’s careless elimination of the fuel subsidy caused prices to skyrocket before working folks had any real protection.
“The government pulled away the floor, offered workers a flimsy umbrella, and now applauds itself while the rain beats down on them,” he declared.
“Their earnings have been consumed by fuel, transportation, food, and rent.” People that put forth a lot of effort and merely ask for the necessities of life are being governed in a heartless manner.
“After asking Nigerians to make sacrifices, Tinubu ignored the ensuing agony. The least fortunate have been forced to bear the greatest burden. That is how this cost-of-living catastrophe is calculated cruelly.
The full N70,000 monthly minimum wage just covers 50 gallons of gasoline at N1,400 per litre. What does the employee bring home to feed the kids? What covers the rent? How does that employee return to work on Monday?