This year’s celebration of the International Workers’ Day, popularly known as May Day, organised jointly by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) at the Eagle Square, Abuja, was shunned by President Goodluck Jonathan.
A source within the presidency told The Nation that plans to attend were cancelled because the president had emergency business to attend to.
The source denied rumours that Jonathan did not attend the event because he was afraid of being booed by workers saying, “the President has never been afraid of such things. The workers have no reason to do that anyway.
“He had an emergency engagement and so had to call off his labour event because it would take the whole day and if he attends, he would be unable to attend to other engagements.”
Meanwhile, the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, today expressed his admiration for the average Nigerian worker, noting that they have sacrificed a lot in the face of tough economic times.
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