The Nigeria Labour Congress has called an emergency meeting of its
organs – the National Working Committee and the National Executive
Committee – for Sunday (today) to deliberate on the ongoing strike and
the way forward.
The General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter
Ozo-Eson, said on Saturday that the major organs of the congress would
meet to appraise the indefinite strike called to protest the recent
increase in the fuel pump price from N86 to N86.50k to N145.
Ozo-Eson
said that the decision to call the meeting was not as a result of the
peace parley between chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, led by
its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the leaders of the
organised labour at the Labour House on Friday.
Tinubu and
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State had appealed to the NLC under the
leadership of Mr. Ayuba Wabba to call off the current strike in the
interest of the country.
The NLC scribe said that the Federal
Government had not contacted the congress for talks after the meeting of
the delegation from the APC with the NLC.
He said, “There has been no such move and no communication from them (the government).
It
is normal that we called a meeting to look at where we are and at what
is happening. We will put all the facts on the table and discuss.
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