Buhari’s Chief of Staff meets NLC, TUC leaders

The Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, yesterday had a closed-door meeting with the representatives of the organised labour, led by the President of Nigeria Labour Congress (MLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba.
The meeting, aimed at finding solution to the ongoing nationwide industrial action by workers across the country over delay in discussions on new minimum wage, was held at Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Kyari, presided over the parley.
Fielding questions from State House correspondents after the meeting, Malam Kyari said the Presidency wanted to know reasons for the strike.
“We want to know what led to this strike; there is no position of government.
All what we want to understand is why they have to go to strike and they told me it is the process of arriving at a figure that got stalled,’’ he said.
Also speaking, NLC President, Comrade Wabba, said the labour leaders shared information with the Chief of Staff on the issues that led to the strike.
He said the leadership of the organised labour would soon meet and deliberate on the issues discussed at the meeting in order to take a decision on the fate of the ongoing strike.
“The Chief of Staff tried to give us detail of government position which we will have to go and convey to our members and then we can revert back to him.
This is how far we have gone but clearly I think we have tried to share details of the information that pertain to the issue of the National Minimum Wage and how the ongoing negotiation was stalled and also the best way to get out of it.
“The government has given us their words which we will also go and communicate to our members and revert back to our members.
The strike as you are aware is called by a larger organ until we get their mandate before we can make any pronouncement on the strike.
“All the discussion we have had, we will communicate to our members and therefore it is the outcome of our meeting with our members that we will also communicate to government,” he said