Worker’s Day: Tinubu Has Failed Workers, Rendered Them Prostrate- Atiku

Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, in the 2023 election has slammed the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for trampling on the right of workers in the country.

No previous administration in the country has treated the nation’s labour force the manner they are being treated by the President Tinubu, the former number two citizens said.

Atiku’s remark is coming amidst the 2024 Workers Day celebration across the country.

He made the remark in a statement on Tuesday, stating that the economic conditions of workers since President Tinubu came to power last year has drastically deteriorated, despite “flowery words” by the administration to improve their conditions.

According to him, the administration has failed in its promise to increase the living wage of the workers adding that  “every dawn unveils renewed hardships” for the nation’s work force.

Atiku said “Despite prolonged pledges and flowery words by the government, the much talked-about prospects of wage increment for the Nigerian worker remains a mirage. Every dawn unveils renewed hardships and harsh living conditions.

“After the contraction and contradictions by the government about whether the subsidy regime has gone or it is still being implemented, the country is today facing the angst of frustration by Nigerians who waste precious man-hours in queues at petrol stations across the country.”

“In an unprecedented manner and condescending of both the Nigerian worker and the general public, this current federal government announced a unilateral removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit without consultations with representatives of the Nigerian worker.

“The continued increase in tariffs in different service offerings without addressing the corruption and inefficiencies in the system only amounts to long-suffering Nigerians subsidising the corruption and inefficiencies in the system.

“Since the days of legendary, Pa. Michael Imoudu, to later day firebrands such as Pascal Bafyau and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the Nigerian worker has been at the forefront of the fight against tyranny and bad governance.

“No administration in our history has trampled workers’ rights like this one. Daily, workers face uncertainty over skyrocketing prices of essential goods.”

Atiku stated that the handling of the nation’s microeconomic situation resembles a cumbersome laboratory experiment, leaving the Nigerian worker in a vulnerable position.

“The Nigerian worker has had it so rough under this current administration and it is unfortunate that while the living conditions of the Nigerian worker remain at a miserably low ebb, the Nigerian government continues to regale its international audiences with tales of how the masses are being weaned of their wasteful dependence on government.

“It is thus beginning to appear, that as far as the current federal government is concerned, the management of our country’s micro-economic outlook is an unwieldy laboratory experiment, to which the Nigerian worker is laid prostrate.”