N70,000 allowance: Atiku hits Tinubu as labour splits, pensioners revolt

• ADC candidate calls relief desperate attempt to contain public anger   • TUC rejects NLC deal, demands N300,000 salary for lowest-paid worker • Retirees allege betrayal, demand inclusion, payment of outstanding palliatives
 
From Ndubuisi Orji and Adanna Nnamani, Abuja
The Federal Government’s N70,000 monthly transport allowance for public servants has sparked a widening controversy, with former vice president and African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, describing the intervention as a desperate attempt to contain public anger over economic hardship, while the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) outrightly rejected the agreement signed by ...