₦airaland Forum

By Abdulyassar Abdulhamid


Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Adewole Adebayo, has described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a well known tax collector.

Adebayo stated this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today.

Adebayo said, “Everybody knows that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a well known tax collector. But that tax collection is an improvement over a disorganized system he met on ground. He did tax collection in Lagos and he came to do tax collection in Abuja. The problem is with Hon. Dogara’s speech is that he is overstating it. This reform is not the best but is far better than what we had.”

However, Adebayo said that Tinubu has made progress in managing Nigeria’s economy.

“It’s obvious that the economy that President Buhari left was a poorly managed economy, and was an emergency room patient. Like any emergency room patient, the road to recovery will be a good diagnosis by the doctor. So if the doctor is able to know what is the reason why you are ill, he will be able to put you on a solid path to recovery.

“What President Tinubu has done is to stabilise the patient, but I’m not sure that he has managed to know the ailment. So the patient is not going to die imminently, but he hasn’t found a cure.

“He hasn’t been able to identify the problem, the ailment that is disturbing the patient, but as an emergency room doctor he is taking some steps, some of it actually aggravated the case of the patient, but over time, he appears to have one or two wins in two sectors, which is why it appears that they might be deceived into thinking that the patient is on his road to recovery.”

casualobserver:
everybody acknowledges that Nigeria's tax collection was very low. So to fix that is it not a well known tax collector you engage? The issue is what is done with the taxes.

is it someone who doesnt know how to collect taxes you engage to collect taxes?
or is it you dont want to raise taxes in which case how do you dund government programmes?

casualobserver:
everybody acknowledges that Nigeria's tax collection was very low. So to fix that is it not a well known tax collector you engage? The issue is what is done with the taxes.

is it someone who doesnt know how to collect taxes you engage to collect taxes?
or is it you dont want to raise taxes in which case how do you dund government programmes?

rigid123:
I absolutely don't know why they think they have the right to be deducting money recklessly from someone's account in the name of this or that.

Toscarel:
Its not all about collecting tax but what you do with the money. Tinubu has used the tax to make life harder for Nigerians without anything to show for it.
Yar'Adua achieved a lot without taxing people to death.

LZAA:
Tax collection was very low?
Don't go and say this nonsense in public o
Just leave it here
Why do you think multinationals ran away?
After paying Tax and light bills they will still buy diesel and somehow sort your Agbado Sifu and his cronies in power.
Tax collection was very low?
🤡 everywhere

casualobserver:
please JAPA then you will understand the meaning of tax collection.

In Uk you will pay up to 45% income tax, then as you spend the remaining you will pay 20% VAT, you will pay more than almost 100% tax on petrol and so on.

when you see good roads, hospitals etc......its from taxes.

SmartPolician:
Tinubu has absolutely nothing in his head. His only method of revenue generation for his government is through taxation. He has brought that Lagos pattern to the national level.

SmartPolician:
Tinubu has absolutely nothing in his head. His only method of revenue generation for his government is through taxation. He has brought that Lagos pattern to the national level.