GUBER POLL: Why politicians are running helter-skelter to perform at last minute – Barrister Ubani
*As Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour gives Lagos civil servants hope
*Promises N60,000 minimum wage for them
By BASHIR ADEFAKA
In a manifesto he just released, the Labour Party governorship candidate promised to raise workers minimum wage by 100 percent within his first 100 days in office, even as he said his target will be to achieve a minimum wage N100,000 for Lagos State Civil servants.
Former Second Vice President, Nigerian Bar Association (SAN) has urged voters in the country to come out en-masse and vote for candidates of their choice across political parties in the upcoming governorship and state legislative elections.
Ubani, a human rights lawyer, made this call while featuring on TVC’s Political Stand Point programme, on Saturday.
He said politicians in government, who have failed over the years to perform, are now running helter-skelter pretending to perform because they know, by the recent elections, that determination of who gets to power has now now shifted to the people.
He said politicians are never accountable in government because they know that majority’s votes notwithstanding, they still have their way through the few who have capacity to rig them into office.
“But now that they know that power has moved back to the people, they have been running helter-skelter such that my governor of Abia State, who has not performed in the last eight years, has suddenly promoted civil servants,” he said.
The human rights lawyer spoke even as Governorship Candidate of Labour Party in Lagos State, Architect Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, said via a video broadcast to civil servants in the state to fear nothing about the coming elections as their jobs are safe.
Rhodes-Vivour said, “Any civil servant watching this, your jobs are safe. In fact you are going to earn more, you are going to have a better quality of life, you are going to have access road to move to a middle class level of work.
“And the only people that have anything to fear are the people that have been stealing from the commonwealth of Lagos for over two decades.”
In a manifesto he just released, the Labour Party governorship candidate promised to raise workers minimum wage by 100 percent within his first 100 days in office, even as he said his target will be to achieve a minimum wage N100,000 for Lagos State Civil servants.
