{"id":3779,"date":"2025-05-01T08:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2025-05-01T08:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:51:03","slug":"may-day-ajaero-warns-edo-governor-over-alleged-recruitment-of-non-workers-for-celebration-insists-we-will-meet-him-eyeball-to-eyeball-after-may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/may-day-ajaero-warns-edo-governor-over-alleged-recruitment-of-non-workers-for-celebration-insists-we-will-meet-him-eyeball-to-eyeball-after-may-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day: Ajaero warns Edo Governor over alleged recruitment of non-workers for celebration. ….insists, we will meet him eyeball to eyeball after May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the nation witnesses the celebration of workers Day today (Thursday), the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the Edo state Governor, Monday Okpebholo to desist from anti workers policies in the state, stating that the congress will take position on the issues affecting it’s members in the state after May Day celebration.<\/div>\n
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Edo state governor, Monday Okpebholo<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

President of NLC, Joe Ajaero who stated this in a pre-May Day chat with Journalists in Abuja said the workers in the state may not be involved in May Day celebration in the state due to what he described as undemocratic activities in the state, alleging that the Governor instead of opening doors for dialogue, has recruited non workers for him to take salute on May Day.<\/div>\n
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He informed that similar situation may happen in Rivers state because of the institution of military Administrator in the state.<\/div>\n
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Ajaero said: “In Rivers state, of course, you know the situation there. The NLC will not go and allow workers in that situation. Say it anywhere in a democratic dispensation.<\/div>\n
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“If we are not in democracy, probably it will be just by the way. That is one. Two, it will even degenerate into all that,\u00a0 if the workers come out of their anger.<\/div>\n
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“Even since he came into office, he has even stopped the pension, gratuity and others of people there. So we want to take control of what is happening in Rivers outside the frenzy of May Day.<\/div>\n
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“In Edo, there are complications.The state governor or state government introduce a new person who is claiming to be chairman of NLC there. And another one is claiming to be acting secretary of NLC. And we have our chairman in those states.<\/div>\n
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“They said the man was in support of the former governor and that he made political statements that the state will boil and all that under the former governor. What you are supposed to do is, you complain to us. We will go through our statute book to see if he’s found wanting.<\/div>\n
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“If he’s found wanting, we discipline him according to our rules. You can’t ask an auditor to take charge. Even if that guy is incapacitated, auditor can’t take over.<\/div>\n
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“We have our rules, we have our processes. You can’t remove any official there without writing us. When you write us, we invite you, investigate the people, set up a committee to listen to them on their issues.<\/div>\n
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“And for somebody to jump up, I can tell you that even the person in his union has suspended him. As we talked today, his union has given him a rating, this will not happen.<\/div>\n
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“But it appears that the governor there is enjoying what is happening. Maybe after May Day, we’ll see him. We’ll visit him and do eyeball to eyeball with him because that’s not how to behave. We set up a committee, the Ministry of Labour intervened. A joint committee of Ministry of Labour and NLC visited him and they met with him.<\/div>\n
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“He promised that he was going to reach out to me for us to resolve the problem. When I waited for him and I couldn’t hear from him, I called the line they gave me, he was not picking. They gave me another one that was his WhatsApp line. I called, he was not picking.<\/div>\n
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“I sent messages. Up to now, no response. But he’s busy issuing threats, trying to get people who are not workers to come to the stadium tomorrow for him to take salute.<\/div>\n
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“If he does that, if he continues that way, we’re going to relate with him directly. And secondly, Edo is not properly implementing the issue of minimum wage. Edo has been a very important state for us.<\/div>\n
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When minimum wage was 18,000, Adams started paying 25,000. It was ahead of other states. Even all these states that are paying something, Edo was paying higher than them.<\/div>\n
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Obaseke came, and minimum wage was 30,000. He was paying 40,000, higher than any other state in the country. Obaseke started paying 70,000 before negotiation.<\/div>\n
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“And he took a fare from May, or even April, April 2024. Started implementing April, May, June, July, before the federal government. And see if the federal government negotiates anything beyond this, we are going to pay.<\/div>\n
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“The governor we have there now is not interested in trying to determine for us to run May Day. It’s May Day,. so let him try this one now, and we’ll visit him.<\/div>\n
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“This is getting too much. If we decide to cancel May Day tomorrow, we’ll do it anywhere. So why would he issue orders? He’s threatening that he’s going to revoke even the seal of union offices in Edo.<\/div>\n
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“He’s going to sack workers that didn’t come, that all parliament secretaries should come. Is that how to run? Is that what happens in a democracy? We are giving him all the latitude. He’s not an organizer to organize the unions for us.<\/div>\n
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“So that’s the situation in Edo. That of Edo is different from the situation in River State. Even in Rivers State, I think even the sole administrator and others have asked for a meeting with the people there today.<\/div>\n
e have asked them to come and listen to him. So we are open”.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Our Correspondent As the nation witnesses the celebration of workers Day today (Thursday), the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned the Edo state Governor, Monday Okpebholo to desist from anti workers policies in the state, stating that the congress will take position on the issues affecting it’s members in the state after May Day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1781,48,106,2436,2437],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-administrator","tag-celebration","tag-parliament","tag-recruited","tag-secretaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}