Posted by Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has criticized the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, for its intention to shut down the economy of the country by embarking on a statewide strike on Wednesday. The strike is scheduled to begin on Wednesday.
NCL had declared a statewide strike that would begin on Wednesday of this week in response to the enormous increase in the price of petroleum at the pump that was brought about by the termination of the fuel subsidy.
There has not been any indication that the Federal Government under President Bola Tinubu’s leadership has been successful in calming the wrath.
On Sunday, the union declined to participate in a meeting with the FG.
As a response to the planned strike, Fani-Kayode issued a statement on his Twitter profile on Monday, in which he slammed the NLC and questioned why it was silent when the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, “introduced his horrendous” cashless policy earlier in the year. The tweet was in response to the strike that was scheduled.
The following is an excerpt from the statement: “The leadership of the NLC did not threaten to go on strike when the sadistic monster called Emefiele introduced his horrendous, callous, wicked, malevolent, barbaric, vicious, self-seeking, politically motivated, unconstitutional, and illegal cash confiscation and money deprivation policy that resulted in the suffering, hunger, destruction, death, suicide, hardship, depression, frustration, madness, and despair of millions of our people. ”
“Instead, they are threatening to go on strike over the implementation of a well-thought-out and credible policy on oil subsidy, which the Nigerian people endorsed by voting for a President who promised to remove it and which, though initially tough, will inevitably and eventually result in the restoration and resurrection of our economy and ensure that we have the necessary funds and resources for massive infrastructural development. “The Nigerian people have endorsed this policy by voting for a President who promised to remove it.
“Does not this seem strange, and does it not reflect the insincerity, double standards, and hypocrisy of the leadership of the Labour Congress?”
“Does that not prove the fact that they are acting out a script and that they are nothing more than a pack of voracious wolves, irreconcilable rivals, devious subversives, and opportunistic mercenaries who are in the hands of and under the control of Peter Obi?
“If Peter gives them the order to jump, they will inquire, ‘Bwana, how high?’ However, the reality is that regardless of whether or not the NLC agrees with it, the oil subsidy MUST and WILL be eliminated.
“This is the only way to save our country from the fiscal challenges, rot, and deterioration that it has suffered over the course of the last 15 years and put us back on the right track for national development,”