There was heavy security, Wednesday morning, at the Ikeja under-bridge in Lagos as members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) converged to begin a nationwide protest over the removal of petrol subsidy.
The organised labour had rejected the palliatives rolled out by President Bola Tinubu in his nationwide broadcast on Monday night, insisting that the total package is insignificant to cushion the effect of the suffering in the country.
The NLC specifically vowed to go ahead with the proposed national protest on Wednesday.
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Presidential Steering Committee on Palliatives held at the State House, Abuja, Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, appealed to organised labour to suspend the planned protest.
He said: “We have laid out the plans, the interventions of Mr. President, as you all heard in his broadcast yesterday (Monday), we made it clear that this was just Mr. President’s initial rollout and interventions and that conversations will be ongoing as we go along.
