November 11, 2024

A member of the of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has expressed confidence that the controversial tax reform bills presented by President Bola Tinubu will be passed into law.

The bills has generated a lot of controversies and some resistance from the Northern part of the country, with the National Executive Council also advising the president to withdraw the bills.

The Senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Senator Ali Ndume, had also said that the bills are dead on arrival.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Jibrin, who represents Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency of Kano State in the House of Representatives, insisted that the bills are not dead on arrival and that the North is not against the bill.

“It is not a consensus in the North that this bill should be shut down. And talking for myself and also how I know the National Assembly operates in terms of following procedures of the passage of the bill, I can tell you authoritatively that the bill is not dead on arrival,” Jibrin said.

“I can explain to you that hundreds of clauses in these bills are things we have been pursuing for ages and the work that we are going to do for Nigerians to see all the clauses in detail and everything, I can confidently tell you that bill will go through the processes in the National Assembly and it will be passed.”

Jibrin said that after the passage of the bills, Nigerians will be able to know that they are not inimical to the interest of the country, neither are they inimical to the northern part of the country.

President Tinubu had in a statement last week said, he believes that the legislative process, which has already begun, provides an opportunity for inputs and necessary changes without withdrawing the bills from the National Assembly.