Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says President Bola Tinubu’s administration is the worst violator of workers’ rights in the nation’s history.
Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, says the President Bola Tinubu administration is the worst violator of workers’ rights in the nation’s history.said this in a statement issued on Wednesday to felicitate with Nigerian workers on the occasion of the International Workers’ Day.
“As Nigerian workers join their counterparts across the world today to celebrate International Workers Day, it is a sobering truth that the plight of the Nigerian worker remains dire,” the statement reads.The former vice-president said the “prolonged pledges and flowery words” by the government to increase the minimum wage “remains a mirage”.
“The Nigerian worker has had it so rough under this current administration and it is unfortunate that while the living conditions of the Nigerian worker remain at a miserably low ebb, the Nigerian government continues to regale its international audiences with tales of how the masses are being weaned of their wasteful dependence on government.
“Our Party is deeply distraught that Nigerian workers and indeed millions of other citizens have, in the last nine years been subjected to misery, harrowing economic hardship and worsening insecurity,” the statement reads.The PDP urged the federal government to review all “retrogressive policies” that do not benefit workers.
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