Mr Sowore said at the Joint Action Front Symposium at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State on Saturday.
Omoyele Sowore, the candidate of African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 presidential election, has said the fact that the Labour Party did not truly present the aspirations of the Nigerian working class during the election showed the level of confusion in the country.
Mr Sowore said at the Joint Action Front Symposium at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State on Saturday.
According to him, it was only the AAC that based its manifestoes and plans on the welfare of Nigerian workers.
He also lambasted the Labour Party for jettisoning the ideology upon which the party was founded, which is to always strive for better working conditions for the Nigerian masses.
He said, “The truth is that we must also be honest with ourselves. We have also lost a lot of energy. Part of how to know that there is confusion in the country… is for a Labour Party to be without workers in an election. There are no workers in the Labour Party; for Labour Party not to discuss minimum wage in a national election. The only party that had the minimum wage was our party, AAC.
“And when we recommended in 2019 that we would be paying N100,000, Facebook economists, some of them in this university, said that it would cause inflation. When I was asked in 2022 what would be my minimum wage, I said that I'm going to pay N250,000. I didn't even know that the Naira would go down. They said ‘Sowore has come again,’ that he is mad.
“But this is 2023, the people who told you that paying minimum wage will cause inflation, are buying SUVs for N160 million for 400 people. That's because they have somehow destroyed your intellectual capacity, you too will defend it.”