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Former presidential spokesman Doyin Okupe has suggested that state governors should have the discretion to determine the minimum wage payable to workers in their respective states, rather than adhering to a uniform national minimum wage.Okupe made the remark while speaking in a televised appearance on Channels Television's Politics Today on Friday.He criticized the National Minimum Wage Act, which mandates governors to pay a uniform minimum wage across the country.
According to Okupe, 'We should not make laws that are un-encompassing, that make it compulsory for all governors in the federation to obey them. They are sub-nationalities on their own.' He further explained, 'For instance, if you pay a minimum wage in Lagos, why should I pay that in Sokoto? Let every governor decide for his own state, based on his own people's needs, what he can afford.
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