The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples' Democratic Party has thrown its weight behind the reported NLC strike action scheduled to commence on Wednesday, May 18, 2016.
In a statement by the party's Publicity Secretary, Malik Ibitoye, the party queried the ability of President Muhammadu Buhari to rescue Nigeria from the doldrum.
"We
want to agree with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) that said in a
statement that “the unilateral increase in prices of petroleum products
today by government represents the height of insensitivity and impunity
and shall be resisted by the NLC and its civil society allies,”the
statement reads.
The
statement further read, 'Our fears are that it would not stop at that
as petrol price may go beyond N200 per litre in the next few months
because we could see the marketers jubilating that they have won the
battle.
'It added that with the unjustifiable
electricity tariff and other economic challenges brought on by the
devaluation of the naira and inflation, the least one had expected was
another policy measure that would make life miserable for the ordinary
Nigerian,' the statement read in full.
The Ogun
State PDP has began firing salvos to the President Buhari led government
since the emergence of the new executives of the state chapter.
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