{"id":353678,"date":"2021-05-18T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=353678"},"modified":"2021-05-18T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:25:08","slug":"waba-vs-el-rufai-declaring-nlc-president-wanted-needless-sani-tells-kaduna-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=353678","title":{"rendered":"Waba vs El-Rufai: Declaring NLC President wanted needless &#8211; Sani tells Kaduna Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Civil rights activist, Shehu Sani, has advised the Kaduna State Government not to belabour itself declaring the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, President, Ayuba Waba, wanted.<\/p>\n<p>He said the seven-day warning strike, which began on Monday was legitimate and has its place in the Nigeria Constitution, which Governor Nasir El-Rufai swore to uphold.<\/p>\n<p>Sani\u2019s comment followed the wanted declaration on Tuesday Waba by Governor El-Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>He condemned the invasion of Tuesday\u2019s gathering of protesting workers by thugs which he believed were sponsored by the state government.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, which he signed and sent to DAILY POST in Abuja, the ex-Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District recalled how the ruling All Progressives Congress when an opposition protested at various times against the government of the day.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe declaration of the NLC President wanted by the Kaduna State Government is needless. Strikes and protests are constitutional and fundamental rights of the Nigerian Workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of thugs to disrupt the workers peaceful protest in Kaduna today stands unreservedly condemned. It\u2019s immoral and unconscionable to use thugs against trade union leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ruling party has enjoyed the freedom and rights to protest when they were an opposition, they should be tolerant of dissent and criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsistent and systemic use of violence against peaceful protests and criticism contributes to the rise of armed insurrection in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the NLC action is a warning strike, there is window for dialogue to resolve the issue of the mass sacking of the Kaduna workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA strong and proactive labour union is needed to protect and safeguard democracy,\u201d he concluded.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights activist, Shehu Sani, has advised the Kaduna State Government not to belabour itself declaring the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, President, Ayuba Waba, wanted. He said the seven-day warning strike, which began on Monday was legitimate and has its place in the Nigeria Constitution, which Governor Nasir El-Rufai swore to uphold. Sani\u2019s comment followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6884,5730,218],"class_list":["post-353678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-ayuba-wabba","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-kaduna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/353679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}