Stakeholders of Rebuild Imo Agenda, the political platform that produced Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha as Governor of Imo State appear ready to launch a new game plan that may lead to the exit of the Senator Hope Uzondinma-led All Progressives Congress government, writes Chuks Okocha
Since 1999, the state once made popular by the late sage, Chief Sam Mbakwe has been struggling to have a firm grip on its politics. Within the last two decades, Imo State has been running short of clean politics; its leadership recruitment and governance have also suffered the same fate. From ‘share the money’ in 1999 to flogging priests in cassock to ‘Iberiberism’ and now to ‘Hopism’, Imo State politics and governance have fallen short of good ethos.
Guest Columnist
By Sam Amadi
The organized labor is in a tangle with legislators over a pending bill to remove labor relations, particularly, minimum wage from the Executive Legislative List of the Constitution and put it on the Concurrent List. This will make it illegitimate for the federal government to impose a national minimum wage on states that are incapable or willingto pay same. This proposed legislation rides on concerns about federalism and the need for component states of the federation to be freed from constitutional centralization. Expectedly, organized labor is not taken in by argument of decentralization and federalism. It stormed the National Assembly Complex some days ago and demanded the end to the bill that has passed second reading. Labor leaders rightly reads the possibility of successful passage of the bill that could easily rollback the strategic gains they have made in collective bargaining with a government that has serially betrayed labor.