The Nigeria Labour Congress has called for an immediate reversal of the privatization of the power sector, insisting that its original purpose has been defeated.
NLC President, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, made the call at the union’s National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja on Friday.
“We have said that the privatization of the power sector has failed, and clearly before the privatization, a lot of promises had been made, that power is going to be affordable, that it is going to be stable, and that there will be no challenge,” he said.
“But all of us are aware that five years down the line, nothing has improved, and we have demanded that the privatization of the power sector should absolutely be reversed because it has not actually provided any headway into addressing the challenge that was very evident before the privatization process.
The NLC also decried the delay in signing the electoral amendment bill into law and said it would not hesitate to resort to protests over the increase in the price of petrol come 2022.