Petroleum subsidy removal may implicate ongoing election petition at the tribunal as labour unions threaten to commence industrial action. Judiciary workers also plan to participate.
This was as the judiciary workers, whose responsibilities and statutory duties are critical to Justices of the Petition Tribunal, are equally determined to join their colleagues in the strike scheduled to commence on Wednesday, June 7, if the ongoing dialogue between trade unions and the Federal Government fails to yield the desired result.
In view of the prevailing situations, lawyers have viewed the two sides of the proposed strike, especially with regard to the timely conclusion of the assignment of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal . “As far as industrial action is concerned; judicial workers are part of the larger Trade Union affiliates in Nigeria. As a result, they are duty-bound to join the strike action. However, as a matter of national importance, it is my view that the election petition should continue with their sittings without any interruption from the Labour movement.
“It piques anybody that the pronouncement by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu could be described as a Freudian slip, as immediately upon that, NNPCL moved in to declare prices of petroleum products. Oguche added that opposition to the policy stand in defiance of social, political, partisan and primordial considerations, which is a rare situation in the country.
He, however, noted that when matters, which have reached a point of protest, see an olive branch in the form of a dialogue dangling, parties should disembark from their high horses and take formidable positions in the valley of reality. “But this unsavoury trend should have been avoided if the new administration had applied more calculative and discreet action on the matter. It is gravely unwise for a new administration to take off from a scorched and sordid ground.”
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