While addressing protesters at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos on Wednesday, Adelegan Solomon, the vice-president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has disclosed that the Ayuba Wabba-led faction of the NLC will ground flight operations at the airport from Thursday, if the federal government refuses to revert the pump price of petrol to N87 per litre.
Solomon, who is also the president of the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUCPTRE), urged Nigerians to unanimously reject the hike in fuel price.
According to him, the N145 per litre announced by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) will further increase the suffering of ordinary Nigerians, noting that Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) were members of AUCPTRE, adding that arrangements have been perfected to ground flight operations at the airport from Thursday.
"Today, few planes have taken-off and landed on this airport but by tomorrow, no plane will land or take off. It is operation occupy Lagos State," Solomon said.
The president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nasir Fagge, who also addressed protesters, said Nigerians must remain united against the ruling class.
"We are convinced that what is going on now is a war of liberation. We in ASUU believe that any change that does not lead to transformation is underdevelopment," he said.
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