The National Association of Nigerian Students has condemned the call made by a former Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi advocating for the decentralization of minimum wage, he said that states should be allowed to have separate negotiations with labour on new minimum wage, arguing that states should determine what they can pay factoring in their peculiarities.
The NANS, National Clerk of the Senate, Abdul-Yekinn Odunayo, in a statement on Monday, described such call as “anti-workers”
The Federal Government and labour unions have been negotiating a new minimum wage for months.
While the labour insists on N250,000, the government is offering N62,000. But, NANS while reacting to Fayemi’s statement called on the FG to ignore the former governor and rather compel the state governors to implement the new minimum wage if signed into law.
Odunayo described Fayemi’s statement as “uncalled for and capable of setting the governors against the FG.