Dogara Supports Tinubu’s Tax Reform Bills, Says It’s Not Anti-North
The North has been warned by former House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara not to denounce President Bola Tinubu for the proposed tax reform legislation.
Dogara stated that the proposed bills are not anti-North, but that Tinubu has accomplished something noteworthy. He discussed Tinubu’s tax reform at the Channels TV Town Hall meeting on Monday.
Tinubu has done what no Northern leader has ever done, according to the former Speaker.
He said: ”I want to talk to my brothers in the North; I don’t think this is the time for us to condemn the president and on account that these bills are anti-north.”
“I want to remind us that the president has done something that is significant and if he can pursue this to the end, then there is no Northern leader of my lifetime that has done what the president has done.
“The creation of the Livestock Ministry is the global business around that; the global market size of dairy products will rise in the next three years to about $2.5 trillion.
“So if in the North we are able to organise ourselves in such a way that we can honour just five per cent of this global market size of dairies, that gives us $250 billion and the North can survive on its own; we are the most endowed part of Nigeria.”
