NLC says the move is insensitive, unjust, inequitable and will only succeed in deepening the growing inequality between civil servants and political office holders.
25th August 2025 07:27 AM 
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has asked the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, to retreat over its plan to upwardly review the remuneration packages of political office holders.
Recall that RMAFC chairman, Mohammed Shehu, had recently disclosed that President Bola Tinubu earns ₦1.5 million monthly, while ministers get less than ₦1 Million, saying the figures have been like that since 2008.
However, the President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, described the move as insensitive, unjust, inequitable, and will only succeed in deepening the growing inequality between civil servants and political office holders.
Ajaero demanded that the current earnings of all political office holders, and the benchmark for the proposed review, be made public.
“RMAFC should put on hold this exercise before it triggers a tsunami, “the NLC chief said in a statement issued on Sunday.
He argued that the development; “will equally deepen poverty among the generality of Nigerians, majority of whom have not only been adjudged to be multi-dimensionally poor, live miserably poor”.
We are outraged by the decision of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, to embark on a comprehensive upward review of the remuneration packages of political office holders across the country.
The move is insensitive, unjust, inequitable and will only succeed in deepening the growing inequality between civil servants and political office holders. It will equally deepen poverty among the generality of Nigerians majority of whom have not only been adjudged to be multi-dimensionally poor, live miserably poor.
We have listened with a growing apprehension to the justification for this ill-advised adventure by the Chairman of RMAFC, Mr Mohammed Usman, but we find it appropriate to warn that making public-office a sanctuary for wealth-making (for literally doing nothing) instead of service and sacrifice will raise the stakes/desperation for the quest for public office with its intended and unintended consequences including self-extinction.
