The Nigerian Governors’ Forum,
NGF, has insisted on two conditions under which it would pay the N30000 new
minimum wage.
The Governors want a review of
the sharing formula that will see them get more money or downsizing of
workforce.
The Governors claimed that
accepting to pay the new wage without fulfillment of the conditions will make
the states go bankrupt
This has pushed the Federal
Government to start considering a review of the federation allocation sharing
formula.
Though the Minimum Wage
Tripartite Committee had recommended N30,000, the Federal Government agreed to
pay N24,000, while state governments insisted on N22,500.
Following the threat by the
organised labour to shutdown the economy if the government refused to forward
executive bill to the National Assembly on the N30,000 new minimum wage, the
Federal Government on Tuesday summoned an emergency Federal Executive Council,
FEC.
It was resolved at FEC that the
matter should be tabled before the National Economic Council, NEC, for further
deliberations.
A source privy to the NEC meeting
of yesterday told Sun that the Federal Government has decided to take the
governors’ request to the Council of State expected to meet on January 22.
The source said, “We are making
progress. We will be meeting with the Council of State on Tuesday, January 22.
“The governors are asking for a
review of the revenue sharing formula and government is looking at that.
“The Minimum Wage Technical
Advisory Committee inaugurated recently is looking into the revenue sharing
formula.”
On whether the Federal Government
had agreed to allocate more resources to state governments, the source said
“everything is in progress.”
Meanwhile, briefing State House
correspondents after the NEC meeting, Governor of Kebbi State, Abubakar Bagudu,
affirmed that “the issue of minimum wage was discussed.”
He, however, added that he did
not have the mandate of the council to brief on that.
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