The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned what it described as the worsening condition of workers in the country, News About Nigeria reports.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.
He noted that it has been an uphill task to remain steadfast as workers despite the unfavourable conditions caused by the ill-implemented economic and fiscal policies of the Tinubu-led administration.
According to him, workers are the real drivers of the Nigerian economy, but have not been treated as such and accorded the respect due them.
Ologunagba also stated that the PDP is deeply concerned by the misery, harrowing economic hardship, and worsening insecurity that workers in the country have been subjected to in the past nine years by the All Progressive Congress (APC).
“The PDP salutes Nigerian workers for remaining steadfast as real drivers of the national economy despite the asphyxiating and life-discounting conditions occasioned by the ill-implemented economic and fiscal policies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration.
“Our party is deeply distraught that Nigerian workers and indeed millions of other citizens have, in the last nine years, been subjected to misery, harrowing economic hardship, and worsening insecurity by the rudderless and insensitive APC administrations, which have wrecked the nation’s productive sectors and brought distress to our national life.
“The PDP particularly condemns the continuing increase in electricity tariffs and prices of petroleum products, with petrol now selling at over N1000 per litre in various parts of the country—a situation that has resulted in an astronomical increase in the cost of living and worsened the economic hardship in the country,” the statement reads in part.
While congratulating Nigerian workers on this year’s International Workers’ Day, Ologunagba charged them to resist all anti-people tendencies seeking to compromise and undermine the democratic tenets of freedom, rule of law, accountability, and probity in the country and remain committed towards fostering a prosperous nation.
