Labor Leaders Storm Out Of Aso Rock Meeting, Insist On Strike

Some representatives of the organised labour on Friday evening stormed out of a meeting with the Presidential Steering Committee on Subsidy Palliatives scheduled to hold at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, led the delegation to the office of the Chief of Staff to the President around 5pm but was later seen exiting the building.

The steering committee members met the government delegation on Wednesday, where the two parties agreed to reconvene on Friday to get a brief from the government’s subcommittees on mass transit, compressed natural gas and cash transfer.

The steering committee was organized by the Federal Government to draw up intervention plans to curb the effects of fuel subsidy removal on Nigerians.

On their way out of the CoS office, the labour members accused the Federal Government of using the meetings as a ploy to deceive Nigerians.

According to a member of the committee from the organized labour, “They are not prepared for the meeting. That’s the truth.

“They are using cover to deceive Nigerians. There are supposed to be three subcommittees – the mass transit subcommittee, the CNG and the cash transfer – to brief us in the steering committee, but the government was not prepared for the meeting.”

”In their introductory remarks, they made excuses and wanted the meeting to continue; the meeting did not form a quorum. We are a people that operate on the basis of process. So, if there’s no quorum in a meeting, what do you do? You will adjourn for lack of quorum.

“There was nobody to meet with. The Chief of Staff was not there; they are taking us like children.”