Fapohunda said this in an interview with ARISE NEWS on Sunday while discussing the opposition of Northern leaders to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s tax reform bills, where he also said that the tax reform bills can never work because Nigeria is not a unified country and “cannot be unified at all” because of the different customs and traditions practiced by the different regions, and as such, a unitary tax reform bill cannot be adopted by the whole country.
He said, “The North, at the flip of a switch, are able to shout Northern interest. Southerners are laid back, hoping that oh, we are civilised, we don’t want to talk about tribalism. Tribalism is at play, we are pretentious about this matter. Look, the North has taken us for a ride for too long, they’ve forces federal character on Nigeria over 40 years. They forced quota system on Nigeria over forty years. Have they benefitted from it? Only the tiny clique in the North is holding the whole country to ransom. It’s enough time for Nigeria to wake up, we are not together, North nor South.
