Breaking: We will fight you to standstill on new minimum wage - NLC tells govs

- NLC has warned state governors against non-compliance with the new minimum wage law

- Ayuba Wabba, the NLC president, said that any governor who is unwilling to pay new minimum wage should be ready for war

- The labour leader, however, noted that former Zamfara governor, Abdulaziz Yari, lost his political structure as a punishment from God for subjecting workers in the state to untold hardship

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has declared that any state governor who is unwilling to pay the new minimum wage should be ready for battle.

The Nation reports that the NLC president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, on Thursday, June 27, said such governors should be ready for serious confrontation with organised labour.

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Legit.ng gathered that he vowed that workers were prepared to fight them to a standstill.

Wabba told the governors to remember that they swore an oath to abide by the laws of the land, adding that the national minimum wage issue is now a law which they must implement.

He said what happened to former Zamfara governor, Abdulaziz Yari, and his political structure was a kind of punishment from God for subjecting workers in the state to untold hardship.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that the Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, May 29, said the state could not pay the new national minimum wage of N30,000 signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.

It was reported that Makinde said all states are not created equal, so it is against the principle of fairness to apply a blanket rule to govern them all.

Makinde made the disclosures while giving his inaugural address at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium, Ibadan as 8th civilian governor.

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He promised to reduce government overheads, increase the efficiency in tax collection, simplify the tax payment system and cut down on debt accumulation without concrete repayments plans.

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