The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has rebuffed the denial by the presidency that there was no discussion of any offer in exchange for fuel price increase during the minimum wage meeting between the organized labour and President Bola Tinubu.
While reacting to the recent increase of petrol pump price from N617 per litre to N897 by the Nigerian National Petroluem Company Limited, NNPCL, the NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, had said that labour felt betrayed by the increase because it opted to collect N70,000 as new minimum wage against its demand of N250,000 because of the understanding that the price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, would not be increased.
But the presidency, through its Senior Special Assistant on Print Media, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, had, in a statement via his X handle, said that he was in the last meetings the organized labour held with the President and that there was no time such an offer in exchange of fuel price was made.
Responding to the presidency claim, the NLC through its Head of Information and Public Affairs, Benson Upah, said it stood by its statement.
