Tinubu started the making of a general strike on 29 May, 2023, when he was sworn-in as president. He removed the subsidy on petrol.
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Tinubu is, however, a more tenacious fighter than Richards. He was elected president in a controversial match, refereed by the Independent National Electoral Commission . In his party’s presidential primary, he defeated the sitting president’s candidates and successfully neutralised his predecessor’s strategies to ensure he lost the election.
It’s essential to acknowledge that news production incurs expenses, and we take pride in never placing our stories behind a prohibitive paywall.Tinubu was luckier. He met a virtually crippled labour movement, with a predominantly docile leadership, and a poverty stricken and demoralised, but angry and radicalised, followership.
Richards, right from his assumption, saw workers as an insignificant minority of within the Nigerian population. He always insisted that the unions were unrepresentative, and lack national spread. This led union leaders to work assiduously to develop the movement at local and national levels. Richards further frustrated all attempts by “level-headed” labour leaders to compel government to honour the 1942 agreement, which states that wages/salaries would be revised “upwards or downwards as the cost-of-living increases or decreases.”
But Tinubu was much luckier. There were no radical and fearless labour leaders like Imoudu. No critical students’ unions to embark on nation-wide protest-demonstrations in solidarity with labour. No principled and radical politicians to capitalise on the workers’ grievances. On 3 June, a general strike ensued. It was suspended for a week on 4 June, after government agreed to shift from its rigid position. The strike was indeed popular, with society supporting labour. It was largely seen as a struggle for democracy and development.
But Tinubu was much luckier. There were no radical and fearless labour leaders like Imoudu. No critical students’ unions to embark on nation-wide protest-demonstrations in solidarity with labour. No principled and radical politicians to capitalise on the workers’ grievances.
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