El-Rufai had on Saturday said his government would not bow to blackmail, insisting that it was not sustainable to spend 84 to 96 percent of its federal allocation on salaries and personnel costs. The state government had noted that it had been subjected to campaign of lies, misrepresentation and false claims that its rightsizing exercise affected 4,000 workers and that it had stopped paying the minimum wage. Vehicles of civil servants lined up on both sides of the road as NLC members enforce compliance of the strike action. Daily Trust reports that at least 14 affiliates of the NLC from the aviation, petroleum, banking, health and transport sectors have expressed their readiness to comply with the strike.