Revert To N86 Per Litre, Labour Tells FG

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and members of Civil Societies yesterday rose from their emergency National Executive Council (NEC) meeting and demanded a complete reversal of the pump price of premium motor spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol from the new N145 to the old N86.50 pump price

Addressing a press conference in Abuja at the end of the meeting which commenced Friday evening and ended Saturday afternoon, NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba said that the Federal Government has up till 12midnight of Tuesday May 17 to reverse what he called the anti-masses policy.

He lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari had broken his electioneering promise of not removing fuel subsidy if he was elected.

According to him, the Congress would ‎on Wednesday May 18 mobilize Nigerians to the streets, shut airports, sea ports as well as all public and private offices after which he said the labour would direct Nigerian workers to embark on indefinite industrial action as their response to the government’s policy.

The NLC President, who read the communique issued at the end of the meeting on behalf of other unions, lamented what he called Federal Government’s disinclination for consultation on issues of public interest and its obsession with protecting product marketers at the expense of the Nigerian public.