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Presidency Doing their Best to Resolve the El-Rufai and NLC Face-Off – Lai Mohammed

Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed

The Presidency is doing its best to resolve the ongoing faceoff between the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai and the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, briefed journalists after the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, adding that the said the Federal Government was working to resolve the issue.

Workers in the state workers had on Monday begun a five-day strike over the El-Rufai administration’s retrenchment of 45,000 workers and the alleged anti-labour policies.

There was confusion in the state on Tuesday as thugs attacked workers at a rally organised by the NLC prompting the Congress to issue a statement, where it threatened to declare a nationwide strike.

El-Rufai had earlier on Tuesday declared the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, wanted for allegedly sabotaging the economy of the state.

However, the striking workers made a U-turn on Wednesday and shelved their strike to honour efforts initiated by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige in brokering peace.

But the Minister said: “The Federal Government is not folding its arms and already the Minister of Labour and Employment has waded in and is in touch with both the government of Kaduna State and also the Labour”

“In addition, the security apparatus all over the country have also taken pre-emptive measures to ensure that hoodlums don’t take advantage of this situation.

“In particular, I know that the police have reinforced its patrol between Kaduna and Abuja so that we do not witness kidnappers taking advantage of the situation.”

He said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration “is quite concerned and is doing its best to see how the two parties can resolve their misunderstandings amicably, with little loss to productivity, little loss to properties.”

According to the government’s spokesman, all the parties have to come back to the drawing table to agree and hammer out concessions and agreements.

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