…as Gbajabiamila describes labour as organisation with listening ears
Organised labour, made up of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, on Tuesday, hinted that it may shelve its planned nationwide protest scheduled to start on Wednesday.
NLC Secretary, Emma Ugbaja, gave this indication while speaking with State House reporters after the rescheduled meeting of the Presidential Steering Committee on Palliatives held at the Conference Hall of the Chief of Staff to the President, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Ugbaja however said while President Bola Tinubu’s announced measures were welcoming, they were not comprehensive enough.
He said the organised labour would consult with members whom they represent to reach a consensus on the next course of action before the end of Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, has described the organised Labour as an organisation with listening ears that would not go ahead with its planned protests after listening to President Tinubu’s national broadcast to the nation.
He said, “Basically, we laid out the plan and the intervention of the President as you all heard in his broadcast yesterday. We made it clear that this was Mr President’s initial roll out interventions and then the conversations will be ongoing as we go along.
“We indeed appealed to labour to call off their protests for tomorrow. We’ve found listening ears here and they all accepted that Mr. President’s broadcast was a welcome development and that they’ll go back home to talk to the other leaders.
“So, we’re hopeful that they will be do the right thing and not protest tomorrow.”
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