Nationwide protest: Tinubu engages NLC leaders

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday night met with leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) at the State House, Abuja, in last-minute efforts to halt the union’s proposed nationwide protest over insecurity.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NLC had declared a nationwide protest for December 17, 2025.

It cited what it described as the country’s “degenerating security situation.”

The President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, led the labour leaders to the closed-door meeting.

Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, Ajaero declined to confirm whether the protest would proceed as scheduled.

He said: “If I’m insisting (on proceeding with the strike), I’m not insisting. 

“I will communicate to you.”

He stressed that decisions of the NLC are taken collectively, not unilaterally.

He added: “It is not an organisation that one person rules. 

:Let’s go back now. 

“You have a meeting of labour and the governors’ forum.

“We’ll go back to the drawing board, digest all that Mr. President said to us, and move forward from there.”

Ajaero said the NLC leadership would reconvene early on Wednesday to review the outcome of the engagement.

He said: “We came for consultation with the President, and we are finished. 

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“So, we have to go back to our meeting and then continue tomorrow.

“By tomorrow (Wednesday), we will get the outcome.”

NAN reports the NLC is expected to announce early on Wednesday whether the planned protest will go ahead or not.

The meeting was also attended by the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governors’ Forum and Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma; Governor of Edo State, Monday Okpebholo; Governor of Kebbi State, Nasir Idris; and Minister of State for Labour, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha.

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