A cross section of Nigerian workers, have debunked the online report engineered by Sahara Reporters, that members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, had on Monday, in Abuja, at a May Day Rally, booed and then chased away Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.
The report which was twisted by Sahara Reporters, and parroted by other online media outfits, disclosed that it was Saraki, who was disgraced out of the venue of the rally.
Speaking with a top official of the NLC, on Tuesday, he stated that the booing was not directed at Saraki; it was just that the Senate President was a victim of circumstances, by being at the venue of the rally.
Recall, that the drama in Abuja, started when the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, failed to appear in person to address the workers, but said he would only deliver President Buhari’s message to them.
The workers who claimed to have been deceived on many occasions by Ngige, approached the podium and disallowed further proceedings, warning that they would only listen to the President they voted for in 2015, especially as he had promised to help cushion the sufferings of millions of Nigerian workers.
The scenario however, took an uncontrollable twist, when former Labour Leader, Adams Oshiomhole, who is also the immediate past Governor of the South-South State of Edo, and a core loyalist to Buhari, mounted the podium to test his popularity, thinking it was the solution to calm the aggrieved and disenchanted workers.
He was consequently, met with stiffer opposition, as the chanting crowd assured him of a showdown.
The unfortunate event threw the dignitaries, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and the representative of the Senate President, into confusion. They were later shielded and rescued out of the venue by security men.
The workers, who defied Police water tanks, also took over the podium and seized the microphones. chanting ‘Ole …Ole’ (thief..thief).
Some aggrieved workers later told Post-Nigeria, that the Eagle Square face-off, was a better opportunity to confront Buhari, that has continued to deceive the people, since his inauguration in 2015.
A Senior Civil Servant, Isaac Omololu, said the large crowd that greeted this year’s May Day celebration at the Eagle Square, depicted the apathy Nigerian workers had for the present government, under the leadership of Buhari.
“Do not be deceived; do not think that we are here to praise government. All the people you see here have ears to hear one thing, and that is the possibility of increasing the minimum wage; any other thing short of that is useless.”
“The children of these government officials are abroad studying, yet we can’t pay school fees for our children in Nigeria. We are saying no to their sins.”
Also speaking, The President of a faction of the NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, said Buhari must be held responsible for the suffering of Nigeria’s under-paid workers, even as inflation bites harder.
Wabba stated that what happened at the event, was nothing but a show of pure anger at what the workers have been passing through, in the last two years of Buhari’s government.
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