NLC grades Buhari low on ASUU strike, inflation, despite media optics
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Joe Ajaero has ranked President Muhammadu Buhari poor on power supply, infrastructure, and industrial relations with unions.
Ajaero also reiterated Nigeria’s political parties lack ideology which makes them underperform when elected into public office.
He said the NLC does not expect much from the incoming administration of Bola Tinubu as both he and Buhari are members of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ajaero bared his mind when he visited the headquarters of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) in Abuja as part of his familarisation tour of unions.
“We want a government that Nigerians will enjoy and this level of underdevelopment will stop. Because what we are saying is that Nigeria is underdeveloping,” Ajaero said.
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Nigeria ‘receding everywhere’
“We are receding everywhere. At the point that Buhari took over government, in the power sector, for instance, they were hovering between 4,000 to 5,000 megawatts [mw] averagely. And in the past eight years, it has been reduced to about 3,000. That is moving back from where we were,” Ajaero added, per The Guardian.
“ASUU strike used to be three to four months, [but] under his watch, we started recording eight months of ASUU strike. We are receding.
“If you check infrastructure, it is still the same thing. If we were paying N50,000 for air ticket before, we are paying about N80,000 today.
“So, the new government, we are still waiting to get their own agenda. Because if we follow the manifesto of the APC, they will sustain what Buhari has done, and if it is underdevelopment that they are sustaining, then there is a problem.
“So the NLC will wait for the agenda of the new government before we comment.
“You can see that parties no longer implement their manifesto. So that is why we are worried. We can’t talk about the agenda of any government. We can only wait for them to state their own agenda.”
