The Nigerian Governors Forum is to hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday (today) to discuss the National Minimum Wage and come up with a position.
This was disclosed by the Chairman of the NGF and Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, on Tuesday.
Yari spoke with State House correspondents on the matter after an expanded Economic Management Team meeting at the Presidential Villa on Monday in Abuja.
The meeting was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Yari said: “The position of the governors is not very clear to some of you – that we are willing to pay the amount but the issue is the capacity – the muscle to pay.
“We discussed that government has some numbers and eventually the committee has given some proposals, but the governors have not come out with any amount.
“So, tomorrow, we are going to discuss with governors and say: look at what labour is sending.
“Look at the bill that was directed by the Minister of Labour and Employment (Chris Ngige) to be sent to the NGF’s secretariat so that we can digest the content of the bill, discuss it and come up with our position as governors because we are critical partners on this.”
Ngige announced recently that the Federal Government proposed N24,000 while the state governors proposed N20,000 as new National Minimum Wage
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