The Tinubu-Shettima Abuja Team (TSTA) has urged Nigerians to prevail on the organised labour, particularly the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to allow a more matured and resourceful approach in the resolution of the current fuel subsidy imbroglio.
This, according to the group should be done in a manner that would at the end, be in the general interests of the masses.
TSTA at an extra ordinary meeting in Abuja on Monday took critical assessments of the conundrum attending the issue of petrol subsidy removal by the current President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
The group described the subsidy removal at this time as courageous, inevitable and having the prospect of bringing the desired solution to the lingering fuel subsidy issue which would at the end be hugely benefiting to all as against the favouring a class of few individuals, at the sad expense of the largest Nigerians.
The Tinubu-Shettima support group at the meeting chaired by its National Coordinator/Chairman, Chief Nathaniel Dosunmu, resolved among others that “the recent past experiences from the threats of organised trade unions particularly the NLC and TUC to go on strike in order to press home certain demands had been bogus noises that had not done the nation the desired good.”
They also resolved that “much that the organised labour only take advantages of burning issues in Nigeria to register a relevance in the national affairs of the country, such noises had often dissolved in the air without a recourse to explain to innocent Nigerians they had mobilised to join in the protests.
A statement by Chief Dosunmu said the TSTA position was “that the after-effects of pronounced strike actions by the organised labour had always ended in inflicting hardships on poor Nigerians who earn their daily incomes through very small scale enterprises.
He said: “Such occasions had provided opportunities for hoodlums to hijack and unleash underserved terrors on poor Nigerians.
“Any policy aimed at rescuing a decadent subject of a nation often comes with an initial hardship that would only last a while before sweet results begin to follow. Nigerians should bear with the government on the fuel subsidy now and reap the good benefits shortly.
“Both the NLC and TUC should please enter into patriotic negotiations with the Federal Government to wit wages of workers, the palliatives and the soothing flows that will favour the ordinary Nigerians.”
The TSTA Coordinator urged Nigerians to bear in mind that problems surrounding the petrol subsidy in the country had been long standing which at this point, require a once and for resolution by the present regime in the general interests of all.