The Presidency has strongly denied allegations from the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) that President Bola Tinubu broke a promise to keep fuel prices stable.
The NLC had accused the President of betraying Nigerians by increasing fuel prices despite assurances to the contrary.
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Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, a media aide to President Tinubu, dismissed the NLC’s claims as “dirty politics.”
He clarified that during two meetings between President Tinubu and labour leaders, there was no discussion linking a minimum wage increase to a fuel price hike. Abdulaziz emphasized that the President made no such promise.
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In response to the NLC’s accusations, Abdulaziz tweeted, “I sat through the two meetings President @officialABAT had with Labour leaders on minimum wage.
At neither of the meetings was an offer made in exchange for a fuel price hike. Ajaero is once again playing his dirty politics with the emotions of Nigerians.”
The NLC, however, insists that the recent increase in fuel prices is a violation of the conditions under which they accepted the new N70,000 national minimum wage.
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They have condemned the government’s actions as a betrayal and have demanded a reversal of the fuel price hike, an end to the crackdown on protesters, and a halt to what they describe as encroachment on the Ministry of Labour and Employment’s duties.
