President Tinubu Declines NEC’s Call to Withdraw Tax Reform Bills, Supports Legislative Process

The President, according to a statement issued by his Adviser on Information and Strategy,  Bayo Onanuga, while commending the NEC members, especially Vice President Kashim Shettima and the 36 State Governors, for their advice, however, believed that the legislative process, which has already begun, provides an opportunity for inputs and necessary changes without withdrawing the bills from the National Assembly.

The development emerged as a notable Northern group, the Arewa Think Tank (ATT) threw its weight behind the tax reform bill before the National Assembly, insisting that it was not targeted at the 19 northern States, as being wrongly speculated in the north.