The Federal Government is considering reviewing the salaries of workers, the Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, has said.
Gbajabiamila made the disclosure on Thursday in Abuja at an event organised by the Working People United.
He said the N70,000 minimum wage approved by the President Bola Tinubu administration in 2024 is no longer in tune with the reality of things in the country.
He said, “The ₦70,000 wage which was a milestone in 2024 must be honestly revisited in the light of today’s realities.
“I can tell you that when the time comes to begin the process of reviewing the national minimum wage, this administration will approach that endeavour not as an adversary of Labour, but as a partner,” the former lawmaker said.
“President Tinubu has said over and over again that the custodians of the nation’s machinery deserve a fair and commensurate wage and as you all know by now, this is the president who means what he says and does exactly what he means.
It must be said that good governance is not a performance stage by government for the benefit of a passive audience, it is a partnership between those who govern and those who are governed.
Nowhere is that partnership more critical than between government and the working people of Nigeria.
With this understanding, I ask the leaders of organized labour and the members of working people united to remain what you have so often been at your finest, partners in progress rather than antagonist in perpetuity, let us choose to dialog over disruption, because as we have proved again and again, we achieve far more when we visit together than when we retreat, retreat to our separate corners.
