President Bola Tinubu’s Special Advisor on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, asserted that it would be challenging for the Nigerian government to set the new, proposed minimum salary at N100,000.
In an interview with Arise Television on Monday, Onanuga revealed this.
The country’s existing financial situation, he claimed, meant that if N100,000 or more was finally authorized as the new national minimum wage, neither the federal government nor the state governments could afford to pay the wages of their staff.
Onanuga buttressed his assertion with the fact that most state governors were even currently struggling to pay the present minimum wage.
He said, “Let me tell you, the last time it was done under President Buhari when the wage was increased to N30,000 per month, till today, 26 state governments could not pay it, out of 36, Only 10 are paying.
“The rest have not paid the whole rate or maybe they’ve just improved a bit. But mostly, according to the people who have monitored it, 26 state governments are unable to comply.
“Whatever the government wants to do now, even if we increase wages to 100,000 naira, will the Federal Government be able to pay?”
