This comes after the rescheduled meeting between the organised labour and the Presidential Steering Committee on Palliatives held in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) are reportedly reconsidering their planned nationwide protest scheduled to start on Wednesday over fuel subsidy removal and rising inflation.
This comes after the rescheduled meeting between the organised labour and the Presidential Steering Committee on Palliatives held in Abuja on Tuesday.
Speaking after the meeting, the Secretary of the NLC, Emma Ugbaja, reportedly said that while President Bola Tinubu’s announced measures were welcoming, they were not comprehensive enough, The Sun reports.
However, Ugbaja hinted that the organised labour would consult with their members to reach a consensus on its next course of action before the end of Tuesday ahead of Wednesday.
Also speaking to newsmen after the meeting, the Chief of Staff to President Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, described the organised labour as a listening union that would not go ahead with its planned nationwide mass protests after listening to the President’s national broadcast on Monday.
The Sun quoted Gbajabiamila as saying, “Basically we laid out the plan and the intervention of the President as you all heard in his broadcast yesterday. We made it clear that this was Mr President’s initial rollout interventions and then the conversations will be ongoing as we go along.
“We indeed appealed to Labour to call off their protests for tomorrow. We’ve found listening ears here and they all accepted that Mr. President’s broadcast was a welcome development and that they’ll go back home to talk to the other leaders.
“So we’re hopeful that they will do the right thing and not protest tomorrow.”
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