{"id":82333,"date":"2026-01-31T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82333"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:44:15","slug":"reps-minority-caucus-divided-over-tax-law-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/31\/reps-minority-caucus-divided-over-tax-law-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Minority Caucus Divided Over Tax Law Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A dispute over an interim report on alleged alterations to Nigeria\u2019s tax laws has sparked internal tensions within the minority caucus of the House of Representatives, raising questions about procedure and authority.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy began after Abdussamad Dasuki (Sokoto) alleged during plenary that the Tax Acts passed by the National Assembly differed from the versions later gazetted. In response, Speaker Tajudeen Abbas set up an ad hoc committee chaired by Muktar Betara (Borno) to investigate the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the minority caucus, led by Kingsley Chinda, constituted a separate panel headed by Afam Ogene (Anambra, Labour Party) to review the matter. Although the House leadership later issued Certified True Copies of the harmonised Acts, the Ogene-led panel reportedly identified discrepancies.<\/p>\n<p>The panel submitted an interim report last week and requested more time to conclude its work, a move that reportedly angered the House leadership, which questioned the caucus\u2019 authority to set up a committee on an issue already under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>House spokesperson Akin Rotimi said only the House in plenary or the Speaker has the power to constitute an ad hoc committee, stressing that political caucuses lack such procedural authority.<\/p>\n<p>Minority Leader Kingsley Chinda described the disagreement as an internal matter, noting that minority lawmakers are represented on the House committee probing the issue. Other caucus leaders, including Iduma Igariwey and George Ozodinobi, dismissed the Ogene-led panel as lacking legislative basis.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ogene defended his committee\u2019s work, saying its report had been submitted to caucus leadership for consideration.<br \/>\nThe dispute has raised concerns about unity within the minority caucus as the 2027 general elections approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata A dispute over an interim report on alleged alterations to Nigeria\u2019s tax laws has sparked internal tensions within the minority caucus of the House of Representatives, raising questions about procedure and authority. The controversy began after Abdussamad Dasuki (Sokoto) alleged during plenary that the Tax Acts passed by the National Assembly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82335,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82333\/revisions\/82335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}