The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PAC),Prof. Itse Sagay, on Friday said the present set of Union leaders are ‘selfish’.

Sagay stated this in his paper at the 20th Wole Soyinka Annual Public Lecture in Benin.

He said, “For the NLC, the Federal Government should continue to determine for states what minimum wage they should pay to their employees.

“And yet, it is a basic and fundamental aspect of federalism that no federating unit should dictate to or interfere in areas of governance of others.

“A state, no matter how meagre its resources, has to accept the dictates of the federal government on this critical issue of its own internal governance.

“This trade union opposition to federalism is the most shocking of all those resisting the re-introduction of true federalism in accordance with our pre-independence concord.

“The fathers of Nigerian trade unionism were great nationalists and progressives.

‘The latter day successors are ready to sacrifice the interest of this country for their own narrow and short-term selfish interests.

“Chief Michael Imoudu would disown this anti-federalism position if he were still alive,” he said.

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