By Abba Gwale
Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, has stated that the Nigeria Governors’ Forum will meet with organised labour on the implementation of the minimum wage.
Tambuwal made this known after leading the Chairman of States Legislators Conference to meet with the Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
In response to a question on states that have yet to pay the new National Minimum Wage of N30,000, the governor was quoted as saying, “Well, our Chairman (NGF) and the team of the governors’ forum are meeting with labour. I don’t want to pre-empt that meeting, please. The business of governors is to ensure that there is harmony in the country.”
Tambuwal also noted that the governors had given their backing to financial autonomy for state legislatures and judiciary.
The governor was said to have been accompanied by Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state, who was once a speaker of the state’s House of Assembly; and Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State.
Speaking after the meeting on why the delegation was at the State House, Tambuwal, who is a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, told State House correspondents that the meeting was at the instance of the President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We are here to meet the Chief of Staff on the instruction of Mr President and you can see that the leadership of the Speakers’ Conference of the states of the federation is here ably led by the chairman. It is all about (Executive) Order 10, which has to do with the independence, financial autonomy of the legislature and the judiciary at the state level”. He said
