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Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Peter Obi says new minimum wage should be determined by states, not labour congress.<\/p>\n

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Obi speaking on Tuesday during an interview with Channels Television, said wages of workers should not be universal but based on realities.<\/p>\n

\u201cMinimum wage doesn\u2019t have to be universal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t believe that somebody In Lagos should earn the same thing as somebody who is in, maybe, Anambra State or somebody in Maiduguri.\u201d<\/p>\n

He, however, stressed that it was important to have a federal minimum wage which is the product of proper talks with labour.<\/p>\n

If elected in 2019, Obi said his government will sit down with labour to find a constructive and acceptable decision.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI argued that every state is not the same. I said every state is not the same; every state won\u2019t pay the same<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has to be a federal minimum, then each state, working within this minimum, can decide where they should go. That is what is obtainable all over the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure we will be able to come out with what is acceptable with Labour because I know we will sit down and discuss this constructively with the labour,\u201d the former governor added.<\/p>\n

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