Atiku: Minimum wage can no longer take workers to work and back home | TheCable

.atiku: Minimum wage can no longer take workers to work and back home | TheCable

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party , says the N30,000 minimum wage is no longer sufficient to meet the demand of an average Nigerian worker.

The former vice-president said the lives and welfare of workers and their families have been reduced to the “abyss of mere existence due to the litany of policy errors by the ruling APC government which created insecurity in all facets of workers’ lives — food, shelter, health, wealth and education”.“In Nigeria of today, the minimum wage of N30,000 cannot buy a full bag of rice, let alone cloth or pay for a worker’s many utility bills.

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