Chief of Staff to the President Femi Gbajabiamila said the federal government is working toward reviewing workers’ salaries.
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives made the remarks on Thursday in Abuja at an event organized by Working People United. He said the N70,000 minimum wage approved by the Tinubu administration in 2024 is no longer aligned with current realities.
“N70,000, which was a milestone in 2024, must be honestly reassessed against today’s realities,” he said.
“I can confirm that when the process of reviewing the national minimum wage begins, this administration will approach that effort not as an adversary of labour, but as a partner.
“President Tinubu has said time and again that the custodians of the nation’s machinery deserve a fair and commensurate wage, and, as you all well know, this is a president who means what he says and does what he means.
“Good governance is not a performance staged by government for the benefit of a passive audience; it is a partnership between those who govern and those who are governed. Nowhere is that partnership more vital than the relationship between government and the working people of Nigeria.
“With this understanding in mind, I ask the leaders of organized labour and the members of Working People United to remain, as you have so often been at your finest, partners in progress rather than antagonists in perpetuity. Let us choose dialogue over disruption, because, as we have proved again and again, we achieve far more when we move together than when we retreat to our separate corners.”
