The spokesperson of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Benson Upah, has given a direct response to the comparison of past administrations to that of President Bola Tinubu.
While sharing his thoughts, the NLC mouthpiece condemned the approach of President Tinubu to the removal of fuel subsidy.
To Upah, Tinubu failed to consider the consequential effects before effecting the fuel subsidy removal.
Upah spoke in an interview with Weekend Trust.
According to him, the administration of former presidents, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari are much better than the current administration.
To back his point, the NLC spokesman compared the exchange rate during the Jonathan administration and the current government.
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His words: “I keep telling people who say Buhari was the worst that they are joking. For us at Labour, we found Buhari very accommodating.
“He did everything humanly possible to ensure that life was stable and good.
When he came in, he gave money to the states to pay the backlog of salaries and pensions but it was diverted. He made other interventions to avoid the insane increases.
“If you ask those same people now, they will tell you that the Buhari administration was very good. We are talking about less than two years ago. Before Buhari came, it was Jonathan.
“We said Jonathan had messed up this country, but now look at the indices and compare the exchange rate, the interest rate, the debt.
So, we are in a situation where we are progressively getting worse.”
Upah‘s comment comes amidst fuel scarcity and hike in price of petrol across the country.
This move was recently announced by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), with the approval of the Federal Government.
