An Akure based human rights activist, Mr Morakinyo Ogele has given state governors that are not ready to pay the 30,000 minimum wage to workers seven days ultimatum to resign or face mass protest of workers.
In a statement in Akure,Mr Ogele insisted that the state governors have the capacity to pay the N30,000 minimum wage.
He threatened to lead a massive protest against the oppression of any governor on the poor masses saying that office of the governor’s first lady was a waste of public funds.
According to him, governors spend one third of the state allocation which was supposed to take care of urgent need of the people on the office of the first lady.
Mr Ogele however called for the immediate scrap or close down of the office of the first ladies as it was unconstitutional.
He advised state governors to reduce the number of their aides and cutting other forms of wastage reducing the cost of infrastructure and restrain themselves from inflating same.
“There is no section in 1999 constitution recognising the office of first lady shortly put their wives should stay at governors house attending to the domestic demands of their husbands.
“This office is draining the state treasuries some of the first ladies are operating parallel offices with the governors having their own pool of vehicles, having personal assistants”, he maintained.
The statement reads, “my advice to our governors is that they must reorder their priorities in cutting or reducing wastage and restrain themselves in spending on what is not beneficial to their states.
“I am now making a patriotic call to all workers, students, market women, artisan and farmers to come out en mass to support Labour Congress, as I am ready to lead this justifiable revolution against the oppression of any governors on the poor masses”.
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