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From all indications, deliberations on the proposed tax bills have been suspended by both Houses of NASS.

The north quickly reached a consensus and gathered round it to ensure that their voice was the loudest and their interest most paramount. They started with the economic inequality they suspected in the bill and threw a sucker punch no one saw coming by introducing religion to the mix at the critical hour. They claimed the inheritance law aspect of the bill was against Islam.

Unfortunately, it seemed our southern Muslims are not really grounded in Islamic knowledge or maybe just subservient because I have not heard any rebuttal to that allegation that the bill is anti-Islam. Where is MURIC?! You know when such thing is raised, even Northerners that are for the bill like Dogara who is even a christian will quickly backtrack before a fatwa is issued against him.

While the Northern Governors Forum and the Northern Senators Forum and other Northern groups were releasing statements upon statements to vent their angst with the bill, their southern counterparts were as silent as night. Meanwhile majority of southerners felt a form of equity they've longed for was in the bill.

This shows the fundamental difference between southern politicians and their Northern counterparts. Southern politicians are basically selfish and self- serving and after their own interests. There's no regional interest in their thinking. In 2022, when it seemed from Buhari's body language that he wanted the presidency retained in the north, the southern governors hurriedly reignited the southern governors Forum. Recently when there were subtle threats of impeachment against Akpabio, Southern Senators Forum was formed hurriedly as well. Where are both organs today in a matter majority of southerners across ethnic and political divide seem to agree?

That is the fundamental reason the north will always have the upper hand in the conundrum called Nigeria. They have identified what binds them and they are not shy to hold on to it. They were not shy to defend their poverty and "unproductiveness". I remember a similar case occurred with the PIB. The Niger Delta wanted 10% for the host communities and 3% for inland oil exploration which basically happens in the north. We all saw Northern figures like the Sultan and others making moves and by the time the bill was signed, it was 10% for the oil exploration and 3% for host communities. There was no southern Senators Forum to raise hell then. In fact, the claim then was that it was because the north was heading all the arms of government.

But what of today, the South is heading all the arms of government yet we can't get ordinary tax bill passed. So how will the south achieve the so-called resource control, state police, fiscal federalism and regionalism which are even more knotty issues. Akpabio, Wike etc etc are suddenly silent. They can't take on the north. Southerners are grumbling and threatening on social media while the north walked their talk and spoke with one voice from the ordinary man to their biggest elites in government!

It's time southerners realise they are their biggest problem in Nigeria. There's no group interest. One rabble rouser on social media who is also from the south was even subtly looking to throw blame on a major southern ethnic group in order not to offend the north. Talk of being a proverbial house nigger. That's the apt description of most southern politicians and political entities.

Tinubu is a northern puppet cannot take any decisions against the north

Rutherford2019:
Tinubu is a northern puppet cannot take any decisions against the north

Tinubu your generational nightmares till the day the Lord says otherwise

Does this one have any sense at all?.. Is this the first time a bill would be suspended for further consultations?. If the bill was withdrawn, I would have agreed with you but you're so dull to understand that a committee has been set up to meet with the AGF to work around the bill. So, why are you in hurry to gloat and embarrass your family online.

PressMyButton:
Does this one have any sense at all?.. Is this the first time a bill would be suspended for further consultations?. If the bill was withdrawn, I would have agreed with you but you're so dull to understand that a committee has been set up to meet with the AGF to work around the bill. So, why are you in hurry to gloat and embarrass your family online.

I wander where he read the bill has been withdrawn. Igbos fear and respect Hausa and Fulanis a lot.

Rutherford2019:
Tinubu is a northern puppet cannot take any decisions against the north

The North made Tinubu President. They can make him an ex-Ptesident in 2027. His Yoruba people didn't/can't make him President. I told all Tinubu's online agents here the other day, that this Yoruba tax bill will not be passed, see the results today.

When the almighty North is against you, your name will be sorry

PressMyButton:
Does this one have any sense at all?.. Is this the first time a bill would be suspended for further consultations?. If the bill was withdrawn, I would have agreed with you but you're so dull to understand that a committee has been set up to meet with the AGF to work around the bill. So, why are you in hurry to gloat and embarrass your family online.

Trash.
The bill will be edited and all the clauses that is against the North will be removed. Any way, it stands. The North has won the fight

Paraman:
I wander where he read the bill has been withdrawn. Igbos fear and respect Hausa and Fulanis a lot.

Is that why you always hide behind igbos to talk to the north?

Paraman:
I wander where he read the bill has been withdrawn. Igbos fear and respect Hausa and Fulanis a lot.

You still found a way to mention igbo, Tilumbu a yoruba president proposed a bill to which hausa the slave masters rejected... how exactly did igbos got involved in a slave and master tirades?🤷‍♂️
If not for yoruba cowardice nature I'm sure you know that igbos would have pulled out of your country long time ago, if you really want to know a fear-fear tribe then I'll suggest you look inwardly within your own tribe.

PressMyButton:
Does this one have any sense at all?.. Is this the first time a bill would be suspended for further consultations?. If the bill was withdrawn, I would have agreed with you but you're so dull to understand that a committee has been set up to meet with the AGF to work around the bill. So, why are you in hurry to gloat and embarrass your family online.

You are the one who actually have no sense but unfortunately for you, you don't know that. The suspension of the bill for further consultation is already a victory for the north. Anyway, you were naturally designed to defend nonsense. Enjoy your stupidity

Kukutente23 your jubilation is awkward lol 😂.

Be bold enough to express yourself without hiding behind others

That's pure coward

helinues:
Be bold enough to express yourself without hiding behind others

That's pure coward

Face your master oga

UnstableFC:
Face your master oga

We have been doing that. It's you people that should stop hiding behind others before expressing yourself

Talk we are listening

helinues:
We have been doing that. It's you people that should stop hiding behind others before expressing yourself

Talk we are listening

Explain

UnstableFC:
Explain

If you are that idle, go and pick beans and stop sounding dumb on my mentions

Very funny,those percentage sharing formula will not change. Na only English they can change. Restructuring through tax reform will stand.

PressMyButton:
Does this one have any sense at all?.. Is this the first time a bill would be suspended for further consultations?. If the bill was withdrawn, I would have agreed with you but you're so dull to understand that a committee has been set up to meet with the AGF to work around the bill. So, why are you in hurry to gloat and embarrass your family online.

CONFUSION is in their DNA and must be displayed at the slightest opportunity. 😂

Softmirror:
your jubilation is awkward lol 😂.

Jubilation indeed

Return to school for comprehension class

Kukutente23:
Jubilation indeed

Return to school for comprehension class

It's a suspension for further conversation and negotiation, persuasions. That is democracy. Is it not the same you and your lots that have been crying that it's being done in a hurry? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

The suspension will be used to for horse trading, it means there is still a path but it has to ne oiled

Typing:
Trash.
The bill will be edited and all the clauses that is against the North will be removed. Any way, it stands. The North has won the fight

Tell me the clauses that will be removed, you're just a puppet, an inconsequential noisemaker on NL.

Paraman:
I wander where he read the bill has been withdrawn. Igbos fear and respect Hausa and Fulanis a lot.

This is apt confirmation of my point. This pro govt account here is blaming the Igbo for a bill that majority of Igbo support. He's also forming daft to the issues raised to avoid speaking against the north. He should highlight where i used the word "withdrawn" in the Op. He's looking to make it an Igbo vs Yoruba fight while the bill is being bullied by the north. Meanwhile on this same thread, here's a northern moniker gloating about having their god by the balls whom he's deliberately blind to.

Typing:
The North made Tinubu President. They can make him an ex-Ptesident in 2027. His Yoruba people didn't/can't make him President. I told all Tinubu's online agents here the other day, that this Yoruba tax bill will not be passed, see the results today.

When the almighty North is against you, your name will be sorry

Softmirror:
It's a suspension for further conversation and negotiation, persuasions. That is democracy. Is it not the same you and your lots that have been crying that it's been done in a hurry? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

You think the bill if it will come back will remain the same? Are you guys really naive or just playing around. I noticed how ignorant a lot of you were about the legislative process when y'all were gloating prematurely that it passed second reading in the senate when the bill has not even been presented in the House. Now the Senate has suspended public hearings and committee review on the bill while the House has summarily suspended presenting the bill.
Are you guys really this ignorant of the working of govt and just a bunch of circus clowns?

Rutherford2019:
Tinubu is a northern puppet cannot take any decisions against the north

It is the same you and your lots that have said many times the even though you dislike Tinubu you love the way he has withdrawn so many political office powers from the North.

The bill isn't withdrawn it for further negotiations. Which is the right decision Tinubu has made. Everyone should be carried along like the Quota system you always come here to cry about against the North lol. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Tinubu is confirmed coward

Kukutente23:
You think the bill if it will come back will remain the same? Are you guys really naive or just playing around. I noticed how ignorant a lot of you were about the legislative process when y'all were gloating prematurely that it passed second reading in the senate when the bill has not even been presented in the House. Now the Senate has suspended public hearings and committee review on the bill while the House has summarily suspended presenting the bill.
Are you guys really this ignorant of the working of govt and just a bunch of circus clowns?

Of course it passed second reading and this is another progress being made. It's the same negotiation, deliberations, suggestions until their is a final agreement by respective parties.

What the North is complaining about is, how the sharing formular based on consumption is going to affect them being a region that is poverty ridden. Because unless you are economically buoyant, will you have the purchasing power to be able to consume. They just want to be carried along despite their unwillingness to be productive. It is not different for the Quota system that you all cry about everyday which a student in the South scores 80% while another scores 20% but because he comes from the north a presumable backward region in western education, he should be given admission into the federal institutions while the guy with 80% will likely end up not getting admission. Instead of investing in western education and gaining admission based on merit. They are always looking for an easy way out to the detriment of the country.

That's why I said your jubilation is just awkward.

phorget:
You still found a way to mention igbo, Tilumbu a yoruba president proposed a bill to which hausa the slave masters rejected... how exactly did igbos got involved in a slave and master tirades?🤷‍♂️
If not for yoruba cowardice nature I'm sure you know that igbos would have pulled out of your country long time ago, if you really want to know a fear-fear tribe then I'll suggest you look inwardly within your own tribe.

A Yoruba man challenged northern cabals in the APC and defeated them, now a Yoruba man is the president of Nigeria. Obi couldn't face the northern cabals in the PDP, he fled to a lesser known party.

A lot of you Igbos like the OP want the bill to fail

The bill will eventually be passed with states keeping 60% of what they generate.

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Same way the coward released underaged protesters and and his noisemakers went mute. Cowardly tribe

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