Segun Sowunmi, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, has said President Bola Tinubu should be responsible for the staunch resistance to his administration’s tax reform bills.
He criticised President Tinubu for appointing Yorubas as finance minister, revenue chief, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and tax reform chair.
Sowunmi stated that the tax reform laws were good, but Tinubu instilled suspicion in northerners by removing their relatives from his economic and tax teams.
Sowunmi said:
“They (Tinubu and his team) created it by themselves. You can’t have FIRS chairman Yoruba, finance (minister) Yoruba, Customs (boss) Yoruba, CBN (governor) Yoruba. You can’t do that,” he said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
“And then suddenly, the Yoruba people came and said we have a new tax regime. They (people of other tribes) will be nervous.
“People are not in the National Assembly or the Senate not to protect the interest of their people; that’s why they are there. They are representatives of their people. That’s why the pushbacks will come.”
According to the PDP member, no law is without ambiguities, but the current administration “caused it by itself”.
“You may mean well but let me have some of my own seated at the table to be sure that you mean well. Nobody will sit at the table and cause injury to his tribe,” Sowunmi advised.
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