The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has suspended its nationwide protests slated for Thursday 27 and February 2.
The congress took the decision at its National Executive Council
meeting held virtually on Tuesday.
The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, who broke the news at a press
conference hinged the decision to suspend the protests on the reversal of
the Federal Government’s plan to stop the subsidy on petrol.
He said members of the NLC who had been mobilised would be
demobilised following the decision to suspend the protests.
The labour leader said the congress has communicated the decision to its
civil society allies who have stood stoically behind Nigerian workers in
their quest for social and economic justice.
The union argued that the attendant effect of the proposed removal of
petrol subsidy would push the pump price of petrol to between N320 and
N340 per litre.
This, it noted, would have exacerbated the inflation in the country,
deepened poverty, heightened social tensions and push the country and
millions of poor citizens to the very precipice.
