An Arise Television’s Morning Show program host, Ayo Mairo-Ese has accused Organised Labour of raising the hopes of Nigerians only to settle for ₦70,000 minimum wage.

Her reaction comes after President Bola Tinubu and Organised Labour led by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) late last week.

The agreement says the new minimum wage will be reviewed every 3 years.

Speaking on the What's Trending segment of the Morning Show, she said: My disappointment this morning is not that they finally arrived at a figure, it’s the journey that organized labors took the Nigeria workers through, especially starting from N615,000, even giving us a computation of how they arrived at that figure coming down to N500,000 and N250,000. Talking them through a strike action, only for them to arrive at seventy thousand naira."

She continued: "I hear the reasons but I do think it makes them lose credibility in terms of trust and the fact that they are speaking on behalf of the Nigerian people. If they knew they were gonna do this, that they were having conversations like this, they wouldn’t have taken or raised the hope of the Nigerian worker and dropped it so low at N70,000."

Initially, the federal government proposed a sum of N62,000, but labor insisted on N250,000, resulting in a deadlock between both parties.

President Tinubu also said he would soon review the four-month salary of the university union in the country in the statement by Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy.