As the recent?petrol subsidy removal continues to generate mixed reactions among Nigerians, an Abia-based group, Concerned Advocate for Good Governance (CAGG), has urged the organised labour not to overheat the polity.
The group in a statement made available to Our Correspondent in Aba on Saturday, said: “it is not in doubt that the subsidy removal will create hardship, but it will be temporal.”
The statement?issued by the group's National Coordinator, Mr Olusegun Bamgbose, assured the people that the hardship would reduce with time.
“The labour movement has?a right to peaceful protest but this should be handled very carefully, so that politically- mischievous ones will?not seize the opportunity?to sabotage the government.
“We cannot allow the corporate existence of the country to be tampered with in the name of mass protest, the political climate of Nigeria at present does not call for mass protest,” the?statement said.
It urged labour to explore other means of expressing its grievances on the issue, adding that “the nation cannot survive without making sacrifices.''
“No pain, no gain, let us give President Goodluck Jonathan the benefit of doubt,” he said.
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