The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has warned that none of the 36 states of the federation with the exception of Lagos State will be able to pay workers minimum wage of N30,000 as being demanded by the labour unions in the country.
The chairman of the group and governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdul Azeez Yari, in an interview with news men on the sidelines of the public hearing on new National Minimum Wage bill by the National Assembly on Monday in Abuja, said that it is easier to call figures than implementing them.
“It is easy to call figures, but when it comes to implementing in the field, it becomes a problem. Only Lagos can afford the N30,000 as minimum wage, not even Rivers can afford to pay that much,” he said.
He asked the union leaders who are insisting on N30,000 to accept the truth and warned that figure that will be difficult to implement should not be passed.
The organized labour leaders had already rejected the approved N27,000 by the national council of states, and insisted on N30,000 as a new minimum wage, which governor Yari said is unrealistic.
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