Abdullahi Sule, the governor of Nasarawa State, has stated that Northern State governors are powerless to overthrow Bola Tinubu, the president they installed.
The recent tax reform package that the Tinubu administration forwarded to the National Assembly was reportedly rejected by Northern governors.
Muhammadu Inuwa, the governor of Gombe State and the chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, announced the governors’ position in a statement on Monday.
Remember how Tinubu sent a tax reform bill to the Senate and House of Representatives for consideration on October 3, 2024?
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) will henceforth be known as the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) as part of the bill’s sector reforms.
Value Added Tax (VAT) exemptions for oil and gas exports, crude petroleum oil, feed gas for all processed gas, and products acquired for use in humanitarian donor-funded initiatives are the goals of the proposed new tax law.
Following a meeting at Government House in Kaduna on Monday, Northern State governors and the Traditional Rulers Council asked the National Assembly to “oppose any bill that can jeopardize the well-being of our people.”
Sule offered his thoughts on the contentious VAT law that has angered the northern region against Tinubu in an interview on Channels Television.
“We cannot bring President Tinubu as a president, the North came in heavily to make sure Tinubu became the president, and then turn around and be against him.
”We picked an item in that bill and that item is concerning VAT, nobody is against anything. We are talking about the sharing formula of the VAT. We have a right to agree with this or disagree with this.
”What we said clearly is that we want fairness in the distribution of the VAT. If we go the way it is, we are going to say it will be unfair to some other states in the South.”
