The special adviser on media and publicity to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Ajuri Ngelale, has promised that Nigerian workers should expect nothing less than double their current salary when the new minimum wage is implemented.

During an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, Ngelale stated this while discussing what the Tinubu administration is doing to mitigate the effect of subsidy removal.

He said, “I don’t want to preempt the president or the work of the minimum wage committee that is getting it down in those states, but what I would say is this: the president will want nothing less than a doubling. I mean doubling the current minimum wage.”

He also stressed that as at June, all the 36 states of the federation received N300 billion more than they had received in any previous months in the last two years and maintained that they have more money to spend now.

Ngelale further noted that:

“The federal government, on its part, is making sure it brings down the cost of food and energy by supporting transport companies and coming up with agriculture intervention as well as SMEs capitalization.

“States have all agreed during the last NEC meeting that they would support the new minimum wage.”