Tinubu’s tax reform bills not anti-North – Dogara

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has cautioned the North against condemning President Bola Tinubu for the proposed tax reform bills.

Dogara said Tinubu has done something significant with the proposed bills, adding that it’s not anti-North.

He spoke at Channels TV’s Town Hall meeting on Tinubu’s tax reform on Monday.

The former Speaker insisted that Tinubu has done what no Northern leader has ever done.

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.”

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“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.”