Workers’ Day: Sylva salutes organised labour, says better days ahead

By Nathan Nwakamma

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Bayelsa, Chief Timipre Sylva, Bayelsa, has felicitated Nigerian workers on the occasion of this year’s Worker’s Day celebrations, assuring them of better days ahead.

Sylva, in his goodwill message issued on Sunday in Yenagoa, described workers as the genuine fulcrum of industrialisation, growth and all-round development.

The governorship candidate stressed the need for Nigerians to take a day and appreciate those who were sweating it out to keep the country functioning.

“History has shown that society’s growth is infinitely reliant on teamwork, dignity and variety of labour.

“From the fisherman to the farmer, the manual day-labourer to the banker, the hairdresser and the civil servant down to the POS operator, there is an enormous level of personal sacrifice in-between.

“Working conditions may not always be perfect and sometimes work environments can be toxic and salaries may not tally with realities, but there is still a warmness of heart when one sees Nigerians working with zeal and enthusiasm.

“For there is that belief that Nigeria is a nation in the works and is on course to get even better,” Sylva stated.

He particularly felicitated Bayelsa workers and commended their faith in the state, in spite of the challenges they were currently going through.

The former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources urged pensioners, whose payments had been irregular, to endure the situation, assuring that the light of progress would soon shine on them and all the people of the state.

(NAN)