Babatunde Fashola, Governor Of Lagos State To Workers On May Day "I'll No Longer Pay Any Wage Imposed By The Federal Government"

The Lagos state Governor while addressing workers on this month's May Day celebration, said:

Today I will like to assert that our government will not be stampeded into paying any wage we are not part of negotiating and which the fund to pay them is not provided for and given to us. I recognise that Item 34 of the Exclusive Legislative List gives the Federal Government the power to make legislation for a minimum wage. That is where the power ends. We have complied with the minimum wage since January 2011 long before it was signed into law. We should be left to decide what more we can afford to pay over the minimum to any cadre of worker.”