Tenure Elongation: FIRS Boss, Fowler Dragged to Court
…To return all salaries, earnings during ‘illegal’ stay in office

A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ordered the appearance of the Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler to appear before it on October 7, 2019 and show cause why he should not be sacked for overstaying his tenure which expired on August 18, 2019.

The presiding judge of the High Court, Justice Lewis Allagoa after hearing a plaintiff’s counsel on September 23, 2019, also ordered that the defendant should be served in Abuja and filed their defence within five days.

In court documents obtained by PRNigeria with Suit No FHC/KN/CS/141/2019, the FIRS Boss was dragged to Court over his continued stay in office after the expiration of tenure.

The Plaintiff, Mr. Stanley Okwara, in a suit filed on September 18, 2019 and obtained on Saturday, also joined the Attorney General of the Federation as the second defendant.

In the originating summon, the two defendants were given 30 days to explain why Fowler who was appointed on the 20th August, 2015, has not ceased to hold office as the Chairman of FIRS after the 20th August, 2019 in accordance with the “decision of the Supreme Court…and having regard to the combined provisions of Sections 3(2) (a), Section 4(a) and Section 11 (a)” of the agency.

The Plaintiffs also sought to know whether the continuous stay of Fowler in the office “is not illegal in view of the decision of the Supreme Court in Ogbuinyinya & Ors. vs. Obi Okudo & Ors. (1979) All N.L.R. 105 and having regard to the combined provisions of Sections of the FIRS [Establishment] Act, 2007.

In the same vein, Okwara in the suit filed through Johnmary C. Jideobi & Co, sought other reliefs including: “A declaration that the 1st Defendant has ceased to hold office as the Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service after the 20th of August, 2019”; and that his continuous stay in the office is illegal.

He further sought “an order barring the 1st Defendant from further holding himself out as, laying claim to or exercising the powers and functions of, the Executive Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service unless he is re-appointed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“An order directing the 1st Defendant to return forthwith to the Treasury Single Account of the Federation all the salaries, emoluments and such other kindred monetary benefits he has been drawing on the purse of the Federal Inland Revenue Service and file an affidavit of compliance within 14 days after the delivery of judgment in this suit.”

The Plaintiff also asked that Fowler be caused ordered to obey any other decision that the Court may deem fit to make in the entire circumstances of the case.

Source: https://prnigeria.com/2019/09/28/tenure-elongation-firs-boss/amp/

Our leaders self!

Buhari will disappoint the mischievous elements just like he shamed those contending for the office of Godwin Emefiele.

Fowler and Osibanjo are going going, gone.

Cabal dey vex o

pfadom:
Buhari will disappoint the mischievous elements just like he shamed those contending for the office of Godwin Emefiele.

Emefiele is harmless compared to a Tinubu backed Fowler and Osibanjo.

Kai! Afonjas don suffer for this buhari govt

mgbadike81:
Fowler and Osibanjo are going going, gone.

Add Tinubu as well.

I. now convinced there is something sinister about this Fowler-Osinbajo saga. There is a deep mess.

mgbadike81:
Emefiele is harmless compared to a Tinubu backed Fowler and Osibanjo.

osinbajo and Fowler re just pawns.



the real person these men re after is asiwaju. he should be careful how he plays his cards, these aboki people dont give a fùck about political correctness.


but zombies would rather stick their heads in the sand and pretend all is well. omenka from beunue will spend all day cursing ipob and pdp. other apc pro monikers here will join him. but they fail to understand that up north there is no pdp or apc, at all.

just yesterday I saw elrufai and Nnamdi sambo, in KD govt house.

but come down south youruba people will tell you dey own apc. oya na

Fowler will most likely be replaced.

The query from the Chief of Staff is enough to suggest that his tenure won't be renewed

Nature abhors vacuum. If his tenure had expired and the person who should either elongate his tenure or send him back home decided to act unconcerned, what would anyone have Fowler do? The blame should be properly situated.

Now the conspiracy is still playing out.Perhaps the cabal must have gotten a replacement so the scheming to ouster Fowler may just be the smoke-screen to initiate the process.

ODB2:


Add Tinubu as well.

He's the real target, they're trying to cut him to size. They're sending a strong message to him.

Captainrambo2:
osinbajo and Fowler re just pawns.



the real person these men re after is asiwaju. he should be careful how he plays his cards, these aboki people dont give a fùck about political correctness.


but zombies would rather stick their heads in the sand and pretend all is well. omenka from beunue will spend all day cursing ipob and pdp. other apc pro monikers here will join him. but they fail to understand that up north there is no pdp or apc, at all.

just yesterday I saw elrufai and Nnamdi sambo, in KD govt house.

but come down south youruba people will tell you dey own apc. oya na

And is there anything wrong or was there the first time Sambo and El- Rufai will be coming together?
You listen too much to side talks from PDP. Nobody is buying Una clever by half half tricks
Yorubas are clever than this Una divide and rule approach/ method

ODB2:


Add Tinubu as well.

Yorubas are clever than this online divide and rule approach.

Afamed:

Yorubas are clever than this online divide and rule approach.

Oga tell that to the cabal!!!

This cabal is really deft. But I think this man was confirmed in December 2015, so his tenure began that December not August when he was appointed as acting chairman.

Nnpc aboki
Custom aboki
Npa aboki
Army aboki
Faan aboki
Finance aboki
Firs.? They are planning to take over
fowler has open their eyes that there is money in firs ,they are interested .
Osibanjo is behind fowler that is why they want him down
How will nigeria develop

It pains me that these Igbo people do not know the dynamics of Yoruba politics.

Everything we are enjoying in this Buhari government today, we worked hard for it by kicking out Dr Clueless of Otuoke because he thought he could sideline us after we massively voted for him in 2011


If the Northerners think they can selfishly hang on to power by destroying our leaders, then they should be ready for what is coming to hit them.

It should be noted that we the Yoruba can easily switch allegiance with the speed light.
Somebody like Peter Obi as PDP candidate for 2023 would already have SS, SE and the Christian part of North Central in his pocket, all he needs to win is the South West.

Just one hour late night visit from Tinubu to Obasanjo and the APC/North will never smell Aso Rock again for the next 600 years.

Sirjamo:
It pains me that these Igbo people do not know the dynamics of Yoruba politics.

Everything we are enjoying in this Buhari government today, we worked hard for it by kicking out Dr Clueless of Otuoke because he thought he could sideline us after we massively voted for him in 2011


If the Northerners think they can selfishly hang on to power by destroying our leaders, then they should be ready for what is coming to hit them.

It should be noted that we the Yoruba can easily switch allegiance with the speed light.
Somebody like Peter Obi as PDP candidate for 2023 would already have SS, SE and the Christian part of North Central in his pocket, all he needs to win is the South West.

Just one hour late night visit from Tinubu to Obasanjo and the APC/North will never smell Aso Rock again for the next 600 years.

you could have made your point without dragging igbo people to it. Besides, the last general elections was rigged and all future elections would be rigged by APC, democracy ended with GEJ.

ChoCho54:
Oga tell that to the cabal!!!

Tinubu Sabi torment una

ODB2:


Add Tinubu as well.

Tinubu Sabi torment una. Someone held a political post last in 2007, till tomorrow Una still dey see him in Una dream

mgbadike81:
you could have made your point without dragging igbo people to it. Besides, the last general elections was rigged and all future elections would be rigged by APC, democracy ended with GEJ.

Stop living in denial.
If election is conducted 1b times , PMB and Atiku Are not in the same class.its an insult for an average northerns here, to have PMB and Atiku contesting for the same post here