This year’s celebration of the International Workers’
Day, popularly known as May Day, organised jointly by the Nigeria
Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) at the Eagle
Square, Abuja, was shunned by President Goodluck Jonathan.
A source within the presidency told The Nation that plans to attend were cancelled because the president had emergency business to attend to.
The source denied rumours that Jonathan did not attend the event because he was afraid of being booed by workers saying, “the President has never been afraid of such things. The workers have no reason to do that anyway.
“He had an emergency engagement and so had to call off his labour event because it would take the whole day and if he attends, he would be unable to attend to other engagements.”
Meanwhile, the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, today expressed his admiration for the average Nigerian worker, noting that they have sacrificed a lot in the face of tough economic times.
He said he was fully aware that the workers’ hardships were substantially compounded by poor government and corruption.
In another development Plateau workers gave the state government an ultimatum to meet the full implementation of all their demands or brace up for an indefinite strike.
READ MORE: http://www.naij.comA source within the presidency told The Nation that plans to attend were cancelled because the president had emergency business to attend to.
The source denied rumours that Jonathan did not attend the event because he was afraid of being booed by workers saying, “the President has never been afraid of such things. The workers have no reason to do that anyway.
“He had an emergency engagement and so had to call off his labour event because it would take the whole day and if he attends, he would be unable to attend to other engagements.”
Meanwhile, the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, today expressed his admiration for the average Nigerian worker, noting that they have sacrificed a lot in the face of tough economic times.
He said he was fully aware that the workers’ hardships were substantially compounded by poor government and corruption.
In another development Plateau workers gave the state government an ultimatum to meet the full implementation of all their demands or brace up for an indefinite strike.
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