A political pressure group, Grassroots Mobilizers for Buhari (GMB) has urged the Federal Government to ignore the Ayuba Wabba faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and never to engage them in any form of dialogue. A statement released by the South-South Media Director of the group, Dr Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe said Nigerians have resolved to put the issue of fuel subsidy behind them as a major step towards the nation’s socioeconomic remodelling.
He further asserted that Ayuba and his corrupt comrades are trying to intimidate the federal government so as to be settled behind closed doors, adding that the rush for strike action when the government was making genuine and frantic efforts to work out additional palliative to cushion the effects of the fuel price increase is suspicious, unreasonable and ill-motivated.
GMB is also alleging that Comrade Ayuba and his co-travellers are being sponsored by the opposition to discredit the APC national government, which makes their so-called struggle a show of shame. Dr Oghenesivbe asserted that a situation where key affiliate groups of NLC opted out of the strike including the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) goes to show that Ayuba and his group of economic saboteurs are serving their stomachs and not the Nigerian workers.
