The founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has enjoined the leadership of labour unions to shelve all plans for strike action.

Okechukwu urged the labour leaders to instead support President Bola Tinubu to “bail-us-out from the economic stranglehold of 1% class of deep pockets.”

The APC chieftain, who was reacting to Tinubu’s recent national broadcast, agreed with the President that the nation was in dire need of bailing the citizens out from the stranglehold of the one per cent class that have been feeding fat on petroleum subsidy and multi-forex market.

While noting that Tinubu could be ranked among the rich class, the DG VON said the president is well heeled to wage this herculean war, which amounts to class suicide for the collective interest of the country.

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Okechukwu stated:  “There is a national consensus after we lost the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) battle of 1986, by all and sundry and all the presidential candidates on the imperative to remove fuel subsidy and reinforce uniform foreign exchange rate.

“To me the strike may not achieve the desired result of addressing gross inequality in the land, since there is no better alternative to the short-term palliatives on the table, urgently fixing the country’s four refineries and as well as implementation of Buhari regime’s Green Imperative Project, aimed at mechanisation of agriculture nationwide.

“Therefore, since we have regrettably succumbed to the nebulous SAP economic policy the only viable option left is to collectively and pragmatically join Mr President to recover lost grounds and for him to commit class suicide.”

The Star