Reps Member Counters Ndume, Says Tax Reform Bills Will Be Passed

In what appears to be cracks in the national assembly, a member 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.

This is in stark contrast to the position of the Senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Senator Ali Ndume, who had 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, saying 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 be able to tell you authoritatively that the bill is not dead on arrival,” Jibrin said on the programme.

“I can explain to you that hundreds of clauses in these bills are things we have been pursuing for ages and I will be able to tell you this; 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, nor are they inimical to the northern part of the country.