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Tax Laws Forgery: President Tinubu After Total Power, Says ADC

—-Demands Suspension of Tax Laws Following Forgery Findings

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called for the immediate suspension of the Tinubu administration’s draconian tax laws, scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2026. The call follows recent findings that the final version of the law contains substantial forgery of provisions that were not in the original bill passed by the National Assembly.

In a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC warns that tampering with a piece of legislation after it has been passed by the National Assembly is an indication that President Tinubu desires to concentrate all powers in himself.

The opposition party demanded the immediate suspension of the tax laws to allow the legislature to determine the extent of the forgery inserted by the Tinubu administration and to take the necessary corrective actions.

The party also calls for a public inquiry to investigate the circumstances surrounding the criminal alterations of a duly passed law, and to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice.

The full statement reads:

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has reviewed various reports which confirm doubts that the various tax laws passed by the National Assembly and signed into law by President Bola Tinubu contain substantial forgery of key provisions that were not in the original laws passed by the legislature.

ADC’s forensic review of the original laws and the gazetted versions has also established beyond all doubt that key accountability provisions were deleted and new provisions inserted, granting coercive powers to the Executive in the enforcement of the tax laws without recourse to the courts. For example, one of the criminal insertions into the laws grants the Bola Tinubu government the express power to arrest and take over the property of anyone who does not comply with the tax laws.

The ADC’s position on the so-called tax reforms has been made clear. We do not support any tax that is more likely to compound the misery and hardship already faced by citizens and businesses. But this issue goes beyond taxation. It speaks to the criminal mindset of a government that has no ethical boundaries, has no regard for democratic institutions, and will do anything to pursue its narrow, selfish agenda.

Altering legislation and gazetting same after it has been passed by 469 elected representatives of the Nigerian people is a direct assault on constitutional governance. More fundamentally, it is indicative of the totalitarian instincts of a President desirous of concentrating all powers of government in himself, even if it means violating the very Constitution from which he derives his authority.

For the avoidance of doubt, under our Constitution, only the legislature can make laws. Therefore, any legislation that has not been passed according to the provisions of the Constitution cannot stand. To accept that the Executive could whimsically insert or remove even a punctuation mark from a piece of legislation after it has been passed by the legislature is to arrogate law-making powers to the Executive arm of government. This portends grave danger to our democracy.

The ADC therefore calls for the immediate suspension of all the 2025 tax laws signed by President Bola Tinubu to allow for a full legislative review. This is the only reasonable course of action if we must not give the dangerous impression that the principle of separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution can be sidestepped by the President.

We also call for a full investigation and the immediate prosecution of any government official found culpable in the execution of this act of forgery that strikes at the very heart of our democracy.

Signed:
Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi
National Publicity Secretary
African Democratic Congress (ADC)

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ADC is just a noise-making party. They should go and sleep.

HgAkpobomeEr:
ADC is just a noise-making party. They should go and sleep.

So we should applaud a president that actually alters the resolution of the National Assembly??

When Tinubu is done with una, he would leave just as Buhari left and you will lick your wound forever

No law can be altered once it has been passed and gazetted. That is the position of the law.

HgAkpobomeEr:
ADC is just a noise-making party. They should go and sleep.

Are u sure u are normal?

Do u even know what is being said here...or u think is just to open mouth and talk without any recourse to sense?

Start using ur brain.

HgAkpobomeEr:
ADC is just a noise-making party. They should go and sleep.

ibechris:
Are u sure u are normal?

Do u even know what is being said here...or u think is just to open mouth and talk without any recourse to sense?

Start using ur brain.

Apt response to ignorance.
BTW try change the year in your signature to 2026

Shout-out to all chess players on nairaland earning via the game.

Tinubu is on a mission to destroy Nigeria that is what most people don't know!

What's the name of the tax laws that are said to have been forged?

Is the new tax law not yet in operation, why are they already crying?

Tinubu is on a mission to becoming Nigeria's Paul Biya

This is a most unserious opposition in disarray. Are these guys working for Jagaban and taking their followers for a jolly ride?

Absolute power destroys absolutely

It's unfortunate that we have found oursleves in this terrible place at this point in time.

APC and tinubu are the worst things to happen to Nigeria...

ambale:
So we should applaud a president that actually alters the resolution of the National Assembly??

When Tinubu is done with una, he would leave just as Buhari left and you will lick your wound forever

What section was not in the original bill? Why didn't the ADC spell out the specifics instead of relying on noise?

The desperation of the out-of-office politicians in the All Desperate Criminals - ADC is laughable and pathetic.

ibechris:
Are u sure u are normal?

Do u even know what is being said here...or u think is just to open mouth and talk without any recourse to sense?

Start using ur brain.

That is a bit. Not a real person typing

Na Crying in politics Tinubu go Tax now...

ambale:
So we should applaud a president that actually alters the resolution of the National Assembly??

When Tinubu is done with una, he would leave just as Buhari left and you will lick your wound forever

Except that Tinubu won't totally leave. I predict what happened in Lagos will happen nationally. Tinubu will continue rullung Nigeria by proxy, even after he leaves office in 2031

ambale:
So we should applaud a president that actually alters the resolution of the National Assembly??

When Tinubu is done with una, he would leave just as Buhari left and you will lick your wound forever

what has the president done that is so outlandish, it is consistent with his character, I wonder why people are surprised, just tell me one thing about the president you sure of
Or you think is genuine

YesDaddyTill203:
What section was not in the original bill? Why didn't the ADC spell out the specifics instead of relying on noise?

The desperation of the out-of-office politicians in the All Desperate Criminals - ADC is laughable and pathetic.

For where, they knew they have gullible supporters who will listen to them.

iwaeda:
Tax Laws Forgery: President Tinubu After Total Power, Says ADC

—-Demands Suspension of Tax Laws Following Forgery Findings


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This tinubu is too petty. He forged his certificate, forged age, forged his origin even forged his name, forged election results forged court rulings and now he has forged a law that has been duly passed by the legislature. Anyways I blame the men of no integry upon whose shoulder he leaned to carry out all these atrocities, starting from yakubu.

Who is going to call him to order on this impeachable offence....no one.

Nigerians have handed him full authority over the Legislature and the Judiciary.

I hope we can see what the 'cooperation' instead of 'confrontation' is achieving for the governance of this country over the past six years.

Nigerians will learn the hard way by worked examples since we don't like the theory of a working democracy.

Will a Saraki led Senate have allowed this slide.

Which kind total power are you talking about? Can Tinubu rule more than 8 years?

Pls stop all these nasty noise and rest. ADC crooks don't even have moral right to say anything becase they are useless.

HgAkpobomeEr:
ADC is just a noise-making party. They should go and sleep.

Not all Nigerians are zombies. Nigeria does not belong to tinubu and his zombies alone. His actions and inactions must be tolerated. Gone are the days of opposition when it just lair Mohamed making noise and playing politics with everything. Now we have an opposition of seasoned technocrats who can read between every line and call the government to order when they start straying or overeaching.

DiarisGodoo:
Except that Tinubu won't totally leave. I predict what happened in Lagos will happen nationally. Tinubu will continue rullung Nigeria by proxy, even after he leaves office in 2031

Lagos is Yoruba and nigeria is not.

HgAkpobomeEr:
ADC is just a noise-making party. They should go and sleep.

You must be living under the rock for you to get paid by saying nonsense.

YesDaddyTill203:
What section was not in the original bill? Why didn't the ADC spell out the specifics instead of relying on noise?

The desperation of the out-of-office politicians in the All Desperate Criminals - ADC is laughable and pathetic.

I like that, All Desperate Criminals (ADC).

favour32:
You must be living under the rock for you to get paid by saying nonsense.

A lot better than you that gets paid nothing for saying nonsense.

It would have been better if you guys had given some examples instead of this silly rabble rouser