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MINIMUM WAGE ACT NOT FAIR TO STATES LIKE ZAMFARA

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The former Commissioner for Science and Technology in Zamfara Ahmad Abubakar Maradun has described as unjustifiable the decisions of the National Assembly to peg a national minimum wage for states in Nigeria since states have their unique socio-economic peculiarities.

Maradun who stated this in a reaction to the recent threat to shut down Zamfara state by the national leadership of the NLC over non implementation of N30,000 minimum wages said, labour should be more realistic in terms of enforcing states in Nigeria to implement the minimum wage, especially where they knew there are visible economic constraints in the state.

He said with the number of workforce in Zamfara couple with the shortfalls in the revenue from the federation accounts and low IGR performance of the state, implementing the N30,000 minimum wage in Zamfara may not be possible.

“if Zamfara NLC is ready to accept the reality they knew the capacity of the state and visa-vie they have all the statistics and data of what is coming into the state how much the state is allocating for salary, debt servicing and other statutory payments. The biggest concern is the number of the workforce, which the labor union knew very well is not a clear reflection of the reality of the genuine workers in the state”.

Maradun who cautioned the Labour union to avoid buying the political impression that they were politically sponsored especially when one considered the relationship between the NLC and Labour Party where Peter Obi is the flag bearer insisted that the NLC shall enter into genuine negotiation with the state so that what it can afford can be offered to them, and they should genuinely rest the case.

He said ‘’if the labor insisted that the minimum wage must be implemented the government of Zamfara state can decide to succumb, but later it can decline because it is not real, and it cannot be sustained”

“World over salary increment is influenced by level of staff productivity and contribution to changing the narrative in terms of earning by the organization not because of minimum wage law”.

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FMR. ZAMFARA SPEAKER SCORES (229) TO DELIVERS POLING

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Former Speaker of Zamfara House of Assembly Sanusi Garba Rikiji of the APC has scored a total of (229) votes to defeat the PDP who polls (61) votes only.

His poling unit is Rumfar Galadima (013) in Gusau the capital city of Zamfara State.

As for the result of the state house of assembly in his poling units, APC scored a total of (232) to defeat the PDP who polls (51) votes.

Rikiji is currently the house of reps candidate for Gusau and Tsafe in the 2023 election, whose election was declared inclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

He is contesting the seat together with the serving members Kabiru Amadu Mai Palace, who is from the opposition PDP.

 

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CHAIR ZBIRS, WORKS COMMISSIONER, DELIVERS POLING UNITS

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The Chairman of Zamfara State Board of Internal Revenue Service, Ali Akilu Dama Bungudu has also delivered his poling unit.

His party the APC scored a total (173) to defeat the PDP who scored (111) votes.

Similar votes were also recorded for both political parties at the level of State assembly elections.

Similarly, Zamfara State Commissioner for Works Rabiu Garba Gusau has delivered his poling units with a wide margin to defeat the PDP.

APC scored (96) votes to defeat the opposition People’s Democratic Party, which scored (16) votes for both the Governorship election and state assembly for Gusau (1) at his poling unit.

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SHA’AYAU S. PAWA MAFARA SCORES (502) VOTES TO DEFEAT PDP WITH ZERO VOTE.

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A political ally of former Governor Yari Sha’ayau Yusuf S. Paws has defeated PDP in his Township Primary school poling unit in Talatar Marafa local government area of Zamfara State.

According to an official result sheet, the politician who is a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) scored (502) votes to defeat the PDP who scored (0) votes.

The politician has made history since 2015 by maintaining the only poling units which opposition party has never won a single vote during election.

He repeated the same history during the 2023 Presidential and national assembly elections conducted three weeks back, when PDP failed to score a single vote.

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