Minimum Wage: Governors Are Not Miracle Workers – Amosun

The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun yesterday told workers demanding a new national minimum wage that governors are not miracle workers.

He said with the dwindling allocation state governments received from the Federal Government, it was difficult for them to implement a new minimum wage.

Amosun spoke at a town hall meeting held in Abeokuta on the 2019 budget.
The governor noted that many states were still struggling to pay the current N18, 000 minimum wage.

Amosun said that with the situation in the country, only seven or eight governors were paying full salaries.
He said: “The situation now is like an old woman with load walking gently, if she now adds more loads, she won’t walk at all. With 18,000 minimum wage, as we speak in this country, only seven or eight Governors are able to pay full salaries.

“We are not magicians or miracle workers that will turn things around, we only make to do with what we have, nobody has the money.”

On the All Progressives Congress governorship primaries in the state, Amosun insisted that his preferred candidate, Adekunle Abdulkabir Akinlade, would succeed him “to build on his legacy.”

He said: “we are going to win every local government in the state, even the local government where our enemies are we are ready for them, they should go and we shall meet them there”

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