Organised labour in the state had threatened, Wednesday, to commence state-wide strike against the state government over unpaid remunerations.
Amosun, while expressing his frustration over the workers’ lack of understanding despite obvious economic hardship, said some of the workers “don’t have brains.”
“We all know this, yet some are not using their brains. They don’t have brains and they don’t know what they are doing. They don’t have sense,” the governor said during a town hall meeting organized by the Ministry of Budget and Planning Abeokuta.
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“I cannot give what I don’t have. Teachers alone collect N2 billion monthly.
“If you want to join politics go and resign, you can then become card carrying member of political parties, you can start printing posters if you want to contest,” he added.