We know governors we will vote out if… ―NLC President

The national chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Ayuba Wabba, has reinstated that members of the labour union will readily vote out governors that refuse to pay workers’ salary if they don’t change.

This is just as he stated that discussions on the new minimum wage is in the advanced stage and would be accommodated by the Federal Government once the tripartite national minimum wage committee reached a compromise.

Comrade Wabba made this statement while speaking to the Nigerian Tribune at the Quadrennial National Delegate Conference of the National Union of Postal and Telecommunication Employees (NUPTE) in Ibadan on Thursday.

The labour chairman explained that all hands are on deck to ensure that workers have a new minimum wage as it was long overdue since 2015.

“You are aware this has been due since 2015 and this is 2018, we want to see how best we can regain the time lost so that workers and pensioners can actually benefit from whatever increase that will eventually be made.

“What we are saying is that once we agree on the tripartite level, it is under an obligation that it would be signed by the National Assembly for enactment and they have given us the green light already, so, the question of budget does not arise. Once it is agreed, they will find a way of accommodating it.”

On the yet to be paid pension of the ex-Nigeria Airways workers, Wabba said that “We are together with the pensioners particularly the Nigerian Airways pensioners; I’m aware that the Federal Executive has approved their benefits and I think what is left is the release from the Ministry of Finance.

“So also, are the other issues of workers that have been disengaged. A pensioner has a right to its pensions and benefit and it is a right that must be respected and we will always stand by them.”

“Let me reiterate again that any governor that doesn’t pay salary as at when due and treats workers as slaves and in the same vein, any governor that has done the needful. Does that are not paying are not more than 10, we have the numbers of those doing well and we are going to celebrate them and support them.” Wabba said.