NLC Summons NEC Meeting To Review Ongoing Strike about :Fuel Subsidy Removal

With scarcely four days of across the nation mechanical activity, the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) has summoned a crisis meeting of its National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee in Abuja on Sunday to ponder on the continuous strike and the path forward.
As per the General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Dwindle Ozo-Eson, the significant organs of the congress would meet to evaluate the uncertain strike called to dissent the late increment in the fuel pump cost from N86.5 to N145."We ought to meet some of our organs tomorrow (Sunday) evening. Both organs, (the NEC and the National Working Committee) will meet. We need to have the capacity to have great data and first and data the nation over, as to know where we are and where we are going," he said.

Ozo-Eson additionally expressed that the Federal Government had not reached the congress for talks after the meeting of the appointment from the APC with the NLC.

He said, "There has been no such move and no correspondence from them (the administration).

Another meeting is relied upon to hang on Monday and directed by the National Administrative Council NAC, an organ of chose officers and the NEC, including agents of all the Congress subsidiaries the nation over
Talking on the matter, NLC president, Ayuba Wabba said that Sunday's meeting was intended to consider on the proposition by a national pioneer of the All Progressives Con­gress, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, amid his visit to the NLC secretariat in Abuja on Friday to advance for the canceling of ­the strike.

Wabba likewise said that the choice to suspend or cancel the strike must be taken by the fitting organ of the congress engaged to arrange with government.
The notice strike activity which began last Wednesday seemed to have been evidently a disappointment in many conditions of the organization, as Nigerians disregarded the call by the NLC and went about their typical organizations all through the three days of the strike.


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