We Are Going On Strike Tomorrow – NLC

President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, late Tuesday night, called on all the worker and Nigerians to disregaed the purported  online reports claiming that Wednesday's mass protest has been called off.

“We have no reasons to call off the planned protest. If we suspend or call it off, you will know. I can tell you that the mobilization is very high.” Ajero said.

NLC held its rescheduled meeting with Steering Committee on palliatives at the presidential villa in Abuja on Tuesday (today), where Ajero made the declaration after the end of the meeting.

It would be recalled that the organized labour on Monday, maintained its position to go ahead with its proposed protest over the removal of petroleum subsidy.

NLC had openly expressed doubts about President Bola Tinubu’s ability to control inflation and gasoline prices due to the unification of the exchange rate.

Ajaero, while speaking to correspondents, said the plan for workers to proceed on a peaceful protest from Wednesday has not changed.

He maintained that the peaceful protest would not be hijacked by hoodlums, stressing that such had never happened in the history of workers protest.

Ajaero explained that it was the duty of the security agencies to provide security for the protest to protect the workers.

According to him, the meeting of the Steering Committee was adjourned till 12noon on Tuesday, to enable the labour leaders to listen to the president’s national broadcast on Monday.

But reacting after the nationwide broadcast of the President, Ajaero said Tinubu’s plan to intervene on exhange rate over inflation and high cost of gasoline prices has a comparative advantage.

Ajaero said, “By the time you have a single market and you are not having anything that has a comparative advantage, your energy is import driven, then how are you going to control it?

“How are you going to control somebody that exchanged dollar at about 900 (naira)? Are you going to tell him to sell below the price?

“How are you going to tell even NEPA today, with the cost of production not to increase tariff? Even corn in the villages that was sold at N18,000 by February, now it’s about 56,000. How are you going to control it?”