If President Bola Tinubu’s executive bill on the N62,000 being proposed New Minimum wage: Most States may need a bailout to pay their workers by the Federal Government and Organised Private Sector, OPS, is passed by the National Assembly, a host of states may need a bailout or retrench workers to be able to pay their workers.
Although there has been an increment in the allocations most of the states get from the Federal Government since the removal of the fuel subsidy in May 2023, the governors claim it is paltry and not enough to sustain payment of N62,000 minimum wage.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the Organised Private Sector, OPS, said there was nothing like agreement in the just concluded meeting of the Tripartite Committee on the New National Minimum Wage but an alignment of interest.
This is coming as Governor Nasir Idris, of Kebbi State distanced himself from governors who gave hint of inability to pay N62,000 minimum wage.
This is even as Senator Ahmed Wadada, SDP, Nasarawa West, urged President Tinubu to approve at least N150,000 as the new minimum wage.
Currently, no fewer than 20 states are not paying any wage award to their workers to ameliorate the hardship occasioned by fuel subsidy removal, in spite of President Tinubu’s plea to them to emulate the federal government that is paying N35,000, in addition to the N30,000 minimum wage.
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