The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has cautioned Edo people not to return the state to what it called ‘the years of holocaust.’
The state Chairman of the Congress, Emmanuel Ademokun vowed that NLC would mobilize members in support of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Godwin Obaseki.
The NLC leadership spoke at an event organized in honour of Governor Adams Oshiomhole by the state chapter of the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Benin.
The NLC leadership commended the Oshiomhole administration, which it said could not be matched by previous administrations, even as it listed some of the achievements of the incumbent governor to include the appointment of two permanent secretaries from the organised labour and increment of the minimum wage from N18,000 to N25,000.
According to the leadership of NLC, others are prompt payment of workers’ salaries, interventions in the payment of local government workers, employment of 900 Information Communications Technology staff into the civil service and the building of a twin Labour House.
“A comparative analysis of this government with others that existed since 1991, when Edo State was created, reveals that the entire past(administrations) could not achieve one-third of what the government of Oshiomhole has achieved since 2008.”
Meanwhile, governor Oshiomhole has declared September 27 and September 28 as public holidays for the conduct of the governorship election in the state. The rescheduled Edo State governorship election will hold on Wednesday, September 28.
The governor explained that the holidays was aimed at providing all eligible voters with the opportunity to relocate to their respective areas of registration.
He said that the work-free days would also allow the voters to exercise their constitutional rights. [myad]
