BEVERLY HILLS, May 19, (THEWILL) – The Ayuba Wabba led faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Friday, met for over 40 minutes behind closed-doors with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to discuss the ongoing nationwide strike called by labour to protest the fuel price hike.
However, at the end of the meeting, the NLC insisted that the strike, which enters the third day on Friday, will continue until the Federal Government resumed talks with the NLC under his leadership.
Wabba also declared that the union was ready to resume negotiation with the federal government on the matter when an invitation is extended to their members denying that the union walked out on the government.
“We are trying to engage government in negotiations essentially about the trade issue, but importantly about the increase in the pump price of PMS from N87 to N145 and we have assured the Senate president that at no point the union leaders walked out on the government,” Wabba said.
“In fact when those issues were presented and the position of government was made known to us, we did not actually agree and we requested that we excuse them.”
Story by David Oputah
