The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), Wednesday requested the leadership of NLC and TUC to declare a 48-hour nationwide strike with mass street protest to demand immediate reversal of the pump price and electricity tariff hike.
SPN in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan and signed by its Oyo state secretary, Comrade Ayodeji Arogun, also gave its backing to the commencement of the mass mobilisation of Nigerians towards a mass protest to reject and defeat both the hike in the price of petrol and electricity tariff and other obnoxious policies of the Buhari/APC administration.
The party while demanding immediate reversal of the hike and the increment lamented that as a result of the hike in the pump price and electricity tariff, ” the already high prices of food items, transportation and the cost of education, health care including house rent have become unbearable.”
SPN said: “Except there is a reversal of this growing trend, the living condition of mass of the Nigerian working people which has already been battered by the consequences of various anti-people policies of successive pro-capitalist governments in the country and recent economic dislocation occasioned by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic will definitely be worsened.
“It is in the consideration of this, SPN calls on the national leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Trade Union Congress (TUC), to declare a 48-hour strike with mass action for effective mobilisation of Nigerian working people in preparation for a protracted struggle to defeat the onslaught.
“SPN welcomes the decision of the national leadership of TUC to embark on an indefinite strike and mass protest on the 23rd September, 2020 should the Buhari-led government fail to reverse the hike in both the price of petrol and electricity tariff within seven days.”
