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Governors on Monday described as unpatriotic the insistence of the Nigeria Labour Congress that N30,000 was the least it would accept as the national minimum wage. They added that it was an attempt to hold President Muhammadu Buhari and the nation to ransom.

The governors, however, said they would have loved to pay the N30,000 minimum wage being demanded by workers, but regretted that paucity of funds would not allow them to do so.

They also said that they were not under any obligation to open their books to the NLC, but had been doing so to show transparency in the running of affairs of their states.

The governors, under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, made their position is known in a statement they issued through the Head, Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo, in Abuja

They said that the claim by the NLC, through an interview granted The PUNCH by its Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Eson, that governors were merely refusing to pay the N30.000 national minimum wage, was not true.

Bello-Barkindo described Eson’s assertion as “not only mischievous but misleading and made in bad faith.”

He said, “Governors have collectively made it abundantly clear that they would have been happy to pay workers the N30,000 but times are hard and because of financial constraints and other limitations, many states cannot afford it, for now.

“The NGF had offered workers an increment N22.500 from the current N18,000 after the submission of the report of the tripartite committee set up by the President and headed by a retired Head of Service, Ms. Amma Pepple, on October 6, last year.

“The N22.500 was arrived at, after extensive deliberations among all 36 governors, outlining their financial capacities and liquidity, considering the economic situation of the country and the states’ other obligations to the majority of the people of their various domains.

“Governors also emphasized that N22.500 is a ‘baseline threshold,’ meaning that any governor who can pay more than N22.500 is therefore free to go ahead and do so.

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