The Nigeria Governors’ Forum said that governors would have loved to pay workers N30,000 as national minimum wage but for the hard times. Bello-Barkindo said that due to financial constraints and other limitations, many states could not afford it for now. Bello-Barkindo said that the insinuation by Eson in the interview that governors were refusing to pay the N30,000 national minimum wage as demanded was misleading. He said that the governors had met President Muhammadu Buhari twice on the matter and presented their books to buttress their point. He said that this was also in addition to looking into other ways of collating financial standing of states.

Source: Punch December 31, 2018 19:16 UTC