By Ikugbadi Oluwasegun
Comrade Joe Ajero, President of National Labour Congress (NLC) and Festus Osifo, president of Trade Union Congress (TUC) in a jointly issued statement on Wednesday appreciating Nigerian people following the support received during the protest.
In a joint Statementsigned by NLC and TUC respectively, “We want to appreciate the massive solidarity and support of Nigerian people who thronged the various venues around the country in their numbers despite intimidation and blackmails by agents of government and forces of retrogression to discourage them from joining the nationwide protest which was called to ventilate citizens outrage at the anti-poor and anti-peoples’ policies of the government. Our hats are doffed at your determination and commitment to saving our lives and indeed the nation from those who whose only interest is to foist continous deprivation and suffering on Nigerian.”
“The message you have sent today is a strong demonstration of our collective resolve as patriots and owners of the sovereign will to demand that those who occupies the corridors of power must listen to us.
You have sent a very strong, loud and clear signal to those occupying the various government houses be it at federal or state that the people remain the sovereign and the barometer for measuring that resides with Trade Union movement who have continued to be the bostion of that collective will”.
Having demonstrated our collective resolve through strong signals we sent today across Nigeria, we urge vigilance on the part of all workers and masses to protect our decisions while we await the response of the government through the national assembly as was assured by their representatives during the protest.