By Seyi Babalola
Primate Elijah Ayodele, leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, has warned President Bola Tinubu not to use the new national minimum wage for political benefit.
Rather than dividing workers over their demands, Primate Ayodele recommended Tinubu to focus on price control, claiming that hardship would endure even after the new minimum wage was imposed.
In a statement sent by his media aide, Oluwatosin Osho, the prophet stated that hardship would continue with an increased minimum wage if commodity prices are not effectively managed.
Ayodele said, ‘’Tinubu must not play with the worker’s minimum wage. Their initial request was too much but they have come down to a reasonable level now and I want to advise President Tinubu not to play politics with it by trying to divide them.
‘’However, let there be price control because without it, minimum wage is zero no matter the amount.’’
Organized labour is demanding the sum of N250,000 from the Nigerian Government.
But representatives of the Federal Government have proposed the sum of N62,000.
However, state governors have complained that they would not be able to pay workers N62,000 as minimum wage.
