NDC Guber Candidate Promises N120,000 Minimum Wage For Kwara Workers

The governorship candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), in Kwara State, Prof. Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia on Wednesday promised N120,000 minimum wage salary for civil servants, if elected as governor in 2027.

Ajia stated this during a media chat with members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Ilorin, Kwara State.

He said the state can conveniently afford to pay N120,000 minimum wage, vowing that the state would under his watch would increase the workers’ pay from the present N70,000 to the proposed N120,000 monthly.

“If elected as governor in January, I will move our civil servants from N70,000 monthly salary to N120,000,” he said.

Ajia explained that he would not only run an inclusive government, but a functional system that would put the state favourably beside Lagos, Rivers and Kaduna states.

Promising to increase the revenue base of the state, Ajia stressed the need to open the economy by investing in the security and infrastructure across the state to encourage the urban-rural drift.

He promised to give the state a lite-rail system to address transportation crisis in Ilorin metropolis.

Ajia also promised to publish an annual promotion calendar and introduce a digital workers’ entitlement register to enable civil servants to access their records, report errors and track corrections.

On pensioners’ welfare, he pledged to verify outstanding obligations, distinguish inherited arrears from new liabilities and publish funded schedules for settling outstanding gratuities.

He said that his administration would prioritise the clearance of outstanding gratuities within its first four-year tenure and establish a system to ensure that retiring workers received their entitlements promptly.

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