The Joint Action Front (JAF) has declared its support to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) planned nationwide strike on Wednesday. The JAF also advised Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, former NLC president and former governor of Edo State, not to play a divisive role on the planned nationwide strike. This was stated in a press statement jointly signed by Dr Dipo Fashina, JAF Chairperson and Comrade Abiodun Aremu, JAF Secretary, where the group described the removal of subsidy by the Bola Tinubu-led government as an attack on the poor and working-class Nigerians.
Fuel Subsidy: Joint Action Front Backs Nigerian Workers’ Nationwide Strike, Warns Former Labour Leader, Adams Oshiomhole Not To Play Divisive RoleThe Joint Action Front has declared its support to the Nigerian Labour Congress planned nationwide strike on Wednesday.
The statement read in part: “JAF welcomes you all in the spirit of the troubled times we are to this conference, which has been called to DECLARE our total commitment and solidarity to the NLC’s declaration of General Strike and Mass Protests, scheduled to commence in the 00hr of Wednesday June 7th 2023!
“The NLC since its inaugural creation 73 years ago has overcome ethnic or regional lines on an issue with a national spread. NLC remains the biggest pan-Nigerian organisation united by a common vision/ mission and shared national values. “Since the arrogant pronouncement of Bola Tinubu on May 29th, during his inauguration as the President of Nigeria, that ‘petrol subsidy’ is gone and the imposition of a new price regime of N500 per litre upward, Nigeria has been further plunged into deep crisis as long queues have returned at fuel stations and ordinary people have to walk long distances to work places and other destinations of commodity exchange for...
JAF also urged working people and the poor masses not to be deceived by the claim that the removal of the petrol subsidy would make more money available for education and infrastructure, alleging that Tinubu government was planning to introduce tuition fees in universities, which would mean high school fees beyond the capacity of many working-class families and the poor.
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