Rivers not fighting FG over VAT collection -Wike - Punch Newspapers

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers says the state is not fighting the Federal Government or any of its agencies over the collection of Value Added Tax as being insinuated in some quarters.

Speaking on Sunday in Abuja at a public lecture entitled, “Taxing Powers in a Federal System”, to mark the 60th birthday of Mr Ahmed Raji, Wike said that the state was only trying to pursue what was right and legitimate within the ambits of the constitution. The governor, who represented by the Attorney-General of the State, Mr Zacchaeus Adangor , maintained that Rivers and the Federal Government were co-equal because they both derived their life from the constitution.

“I have heard a lot of comments being made that we are fighting the Federal Government, there is no desire or any intention of the Rivers government to fight the Federal Government. “The principle of co-equality is fundamental to a federal arrangement, that principle leads to the principle of autonomy, autonomy leads to physical autonomy and physical autonomy leads to physical federalism and when you put all the principles together, what it means is that each level of government, whether federal or state is co-equal because none derives its life from the other.

Indeed the wheels of the judiciary grinds slowly. In a short while a clear case as straight forward as VAT which every legal practitioner has expressed the same view, will go beyond a year in the presence of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

The real leaders of the south we emerge soon these mediocre that play only to soundbite will give way, the is in there need for leader thank God for MNK

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