Boss98.9 FM
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has said that the state is not at war with the federal government or any of its components over the dispute on the authority to collect Value Added Tax, VAT, as being insinuated in some quarters.
Wike, who was represented by the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Zacheus Adangor, at a public lecture on Taxing Powers in a Federal System held in Abuja, insisted that Rivers and the Federal Government are co-equal because they derived their life from the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Wike maintained that the State is not a slave to the Federal Government and would continue to pursue what is right and legitimate within the ambit of the constitution.
