PMS also known as petrol, its subsidy removal has turned into a burning discussion still ongoing with Organised Labour and other stakeholders in Nigeria after the new president of the country, Bola Tinubu made the declaration.
The TUC President, Comrade Festus Osifo, therefore, pleaded with the Federal Government to revert to the status quo of its decision to remove the fuel subsidy, which has seen the retail price jump from N185 per litre to N537 per litre.
The TUC made this known while addressing newsmen at the end of an emergency meeting of the congress’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Friday in Abuja.
According to Osifo, Congress is unhappy with the unilateral decision of the Federal Government to remove the subsidy.
He said the TUC expected that the government should have engaged Organised labour.
“Having noted this, we wish to state that the NEC-in- session resolved that discussions with Federal Government should continue while demanding that the government should revert to the status quo ante.
“The status quo ante should be maintained while discussions continue as we had a meeting with the government on Wednesday.
“During that discussion, they gave us a list of all the things they would do and they also demanded to know our thinking and what we are putting up.
“We told them the lists of the things we want to put forward, we will not submit them now but put them forward to our organs, to discuss and seek a mandate from them of the things we can put forward,’ ‘he said.
According to Osifo, it is how the government reacts to TUC’s demands that will determine the union’s next line of action.
“We will wait till Sunday when we will meet with the representatives of the government.
“Once we are done with that meeting then the TUC is going to put its demands forward, it is how they react to those demands that will determine our next line of action, ”he said.
