Fuel price: Tinubu’s N70,000 minimum wage can only buy 50 litres of petrol – Atiku

The statesmanlike campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and erstwhile Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has said beingness has go progressively hard for Nigerians nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, noting that the N70,000 minimum wage tin bargain lone 50 litres of petrol astatine N1,400 per litre.

He disclosed this successful a connection on Sunday by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu.

Atiku lamented that the outgo of surviving had risen sharply nether the Tinubu medication without a corresponding summation successful wages for Nigerian workers.

He stressed that erstwhile the country’s minimum wage was N30,000, it could bargain astir 118 litres of petrol, portion the existent minimum wage of N70,000 tin bargain lone 50 litres.

While acknowledging that minimum wages disagree crossed countries, Atiku said Nigerian workers gain little than their counterparts successful different oil-producing African countries, including Libya, Algeria and the Republic of Benin.

“At N1,400 a litre, the full N70,000 monthly minimum wage buys conscionable 50 litres of petrol. What does the idiosyncratic instrumentality location to provender the children? What pays the rent? What gets that idiosyncratic backmost to enactment on Monday?”

“The payslip has grown, but the substance it tin bargain has much than halved. Tinubu has fixed workers a larger fig and near them with a smaller life,” helium stated.

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