Soludo believes that governors should earn the minimum wage in order to understand the agony of workers.

Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo stated on Wednesday that governors and other elected officials should be paid the minimum wage to reflect Nigeria’s actual realities. He stated that, despite the flashy lives depicted by governors and elected officials, the country was experiencing a severe financial crisis.

The governor spoke during a special edition of The Platform, which is hosted by The Covenant Nation to encourage national development. According to him, Nigeria’s economic troubles are aggravated by government officials’ expensive lives, which are funded at the expense of the country’s resources.

“Let’s be straightforward with Nigerians. Nigeria is incredibly impoverished and broke, but the lifestyle of the government and its officials does not reflect this, especially with the disgusting flamboyance on public display,” Soludo stated. He went on to remark, “The poor are hungry and impatient; let’s not irritate them further with our insensitivity. In this scenario, I agree with Reverend Father Mbaka, who stated that elected governors should also be paid the minimum wage. I think that we should be compensated so that we can experience it as well.

“In Anambra, I have not got a kobo as a wage since I took office. I donated my pay to the state.

“It’s symbolic. It’s not much. I believe the system is in denial. There must be some signalling; it is simply the symbolism of this. Soludo asked his colleagues and elected leaders to reduce unnecessary spending.

“That is why I recommended creating a new code of behavior for public officials. The federal government’s actual expected revenue is approximately N6,160 per Nigerian each month. “With the exception of Lagos and a few states, most governments’ revenues per person are less than N3,000 per month.

“From these shares per citizen, we are expected to provide all infrastructure, debt service, salaries and pensions, school construction, and everything else.

“For each foolish spending, let us consider how many residents share the resources we are squandering. “Once we lose this awareness of the public trust we bear, society dies irreversibly,” he remarked.